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Dueling cultures, damnable legacies : Southern violence and White supremacy in the Civil War era /

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"Focusing on the town of Edgefield, South Carolina, this book proposes a culture of 'righteous honor' as a framework through which to understand the antebellum defense of slavery, secession, and civil war, as well as resistance to postwar emancipation and Reconstruction"--

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Main Author: Welborn, James Hill, III (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Series:Nation divided.
Subjects:
Edgefield (S.C.) > Race relations.
Edgefield (S.C.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Honor > Southern States > Religious aspects > History > 19th century.
Masculinity > Southern States > Religious aspects > History > 19th century.
Violence > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Men, White > Southern States > History > 19th century.
White supremacy (Social structure) > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
White supremacy (Social structure)
Honor.
Manners and customs.
Masculinity.
Men, White.
Violence.
South Carolina > Edgefield.
Southern States.
United States.
1775-1899
History.
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