{"product_id":"the-old-south-isbn-9780631219279","title":"The Old South","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Old South\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of primary documents and previously published essays introducing students to recent themes found in scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. The documents are drawn directly from the essays not only to vividly illustrate the events, but also to show students how historians construct arguments based on archival evidence. Smith introduces the collection with a detailed essay, and provides study questions, suggestions for further reading, a map, and a chronology of significant events creating a highly useful student-friendly reader.  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eMap: The Old South in 1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: A Modern Old South.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Documents and Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. An \"Old\" Old South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSketches of the South Santee, 1797-1798.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Georgia Planter on the Classical South, 1835.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Georgia Planter Bemoans the Cost of Slavery, 1846.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn \"Old\" Old South. (Raimondo Luraghi).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. An Old South by the Clock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Importance of \"Early Rising,\" 1851.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClock Time and Southern Railroads, 1834.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlantation Time, 1851.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTiming Slave Labor by the Watch, 1843.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlantation Time from a Slave's Perspective, 1847.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Old South by the Clock. (Mark M. Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudy Questions and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Southern Honor, Southern Violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Documents and Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAffronts to Honor in a Southern Newspaper, 1843.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Accusations of Falsehood, 1833.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCodes of Honor and Dueling, 1858.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance. (Kenneth S. Greenberg).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Traveller's Comments on the \"Barbarity\" of the Southern Frontier, 1816.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Traveller Observes Techniques of Fighting. 1807.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Tall talk\" Among Ruffians, 1843.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoor, Violent Men in a Premodern World. (Elliot J. Gorn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudy Questions and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Constructing And Defending Slavery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Documents and Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Slavery Ordained of God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrederick Law Olmstead Recounts Impressions of a Religious Meeting, 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Henley Thornwell's Defense of Slavery, 1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery Ordained of God. (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Henley Thornwell Associates Slavery and Gender Relations, 1852.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn L. Manning's Letter to his Wife, 1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Howe Justifies the Subordination of Women, 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen. (Stephanie McCurry).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudy Questions and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Communities, Cultures, and Economies: Lives of the Enslaved.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Documents and Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Manigault's Plantation Journal, 1844.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA South Carolina Rice Planter on the Slaves' Economy, 1858.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePetition and Deposition of Former Slaves, 1873.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy. (Philip D. Morgan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormer Slaves Recall Independent Production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Foreign Traveller Observes Wage-earning Slaves, 1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlaves on Trial, 1846.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy. (Lawrence T. McDonnell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudy Questions and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Selling Southern Bodies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Documents and Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Slave Trader in Image and Reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Boston Minister on Slave Traders, 1855.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Slaveholder Comments on Traders and Prices, 1846.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Trader Notes Market Prices for Slaves, 1859.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Slave Trader in Image and Reality. (Michael Tadman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Reading Bodies, Answering Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Southern Physician on \"Unsoundness in the Negro,\" 1858-1859.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Trader Notes How Slaves Affect Their Sales, 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Former Slave Notes Buyers Reading Bodies, 1855.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Slave Reads a Buyer, 1858.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsking Questions and Reading Bodies. (Walter Johnson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudy Questions and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Womanhood in Black and White.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Documents and Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Breast-Feeding and Elite White Womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouthern Medical Opinions on Wet Nursing and Breast Feeding, 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNewspaper Advertisements for Wet Nurses, 1859.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Southern Mother on Child-Rearing, 1844.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreast-Feeding and Elite White Motherhood. (Sally McMillen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining a \"Good Wife\" and \"Good Woman,\" 1835.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTestimony of Three former Virginia Female Slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Keckley Resists Bondage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlave Women and Definitions of Womanhood. (Brenda Stevenson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudy Questions and Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  This is an exceptionally well-conceived and well-executed collection of documents and scholarly essays. Mark Smith deserves high marks for at once presenting and recasting the antebellum South in bold and original ways. The Old South is absolutely first-rate.\" \u003ci\u003ePeter Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"This book provides an excellent introduction to the study of the antebellum South, covering the salient topics in the region's economic, political, and cultural history. Mark Smith's essay on the historiography is elegant and informative, and his choice of readings is judicious. Undergraduates will learn a great deal from this volume, and it is perfectly suited for course adoption.\" \u003ci\u003eJoan E. Cashin, author of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMark M. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He previously taught at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and \u003ci\u003eDebating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). This collection of primary documents and previously published essays introduces students to the principal themes in recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. The twelve essays cover a variety of topics including the relative modernity of the Old South, the proslavery defense of servitude, gender relations, southern honor and violence, the slave trade, the slaves' economy and community, and the histories of southern women - both black and white. The documents - including court cases, personal letters, diaries, travel accounts, newspaper stories, advertisements, and slave narratives - have been drawn directly from the essay sources in order to illustrate how historians construct arguments. Smith provides a detailed main introduction to the collection to help students situate the readings and documents within the larger context of the antebellum South. In addition, there are brief introductions to each document and essay, study questions, suggestions for further reading, a map, and a chronology of significant events.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990303883493,"sku":"NP9780631219279","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631219279.jpg?v=1761787276","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-old-south-isbn-9780631219279","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}