Product Description: In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters...read more

Product Description: The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history...read more

Product Description: In an almanac-like format, outlines the causes of the US Civil War, including the issues of slavery and states rights. Also discusses the political environment and events that spurred the war, such as the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Raid on Harpers Ferry.

Product Description: By the middle of the 1800s, the United States had become two separate societies. The North and the South were divided by vast economic, educational, and cultural differences. There was widespread misunderstanding and even hatred between the two regions of the country...read more

Product Description: This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other scholars on the topic of slavery and plantations...read more

Product Description: In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original scholarship in the field of the antebellum South published since 1992, when the first edition appeared...read more

Product Description: In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original scholarship in the field of the antebellum South published since 1992, when the first edition appeared...read more

Traces the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system through the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, and examines the ways race has shaped the history of the United States. Simultaneous.

The most current research on the role of quilts during the time of slavery, emancipation, and the Underground Railroad is presented in a collection of nine projects that combine historic blocks with the author's own designs. Original.

'This detailed account of slavery in America, from Jamestown through the Civil War, explains its economic importance in the North as well as the South, its impact on the political dynamics of the Civil War, and the moral dilemmas it posed'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: "A provocative explanation of how differences in slavery and later abolition movements produced different responses in post-abolition societies and contributed significantly to the creation of the southern myth."--Sylvia Frey, Tulane UniversityProviding new insights into the origins of benevolent myths about the Old South, Nathalie Dessens compares slave systems of the Caribbean and the American South from the early days of European colonization to the abolition of slavery...read more

Explains the little-known but widely practiced custom of renting slaves and the effects on slaves, masters, and the institution of slavery.

Presents essays that examine the philosophical and socioeconomic issues of slavery, such as the impact that slavery had on secession, the nature of relations between master and slave, and the effect the Civil War had on race relations. (view table of contents)

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Nearly twenty years after its original publication, "Place Over Time" remains an influential work in an ongoing debate at the heart of southern historiography--what is the South and how is it different from other parts of the country?Carl N. Degler takes issue with historians C. Vann Woodward, Eugene Genovese, and others who view the Old South as a fading memory overtaken by a bold New South, with the Civil War and its aftermath as the sharp dividing point between the two eras. He also challenges the conventional wisdom that the South is fundamentally different from the rest of the country. Instead, Degler makes an eloquent and thought-provoking argument for a narrowly limited but persistent southern cultural identity that shares common values with the rest of the country while retaining its own distinctiveness and continuity with the past. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people...read more

Looks at the relationship between slavery and capitalism in nineteenth-century America, and describes how slave resistance affected American politics