The Promise of the New South

Release on 2007-09-07 | by Edward L. Ayers

two races, the one inferior, cannot live in peace and harmony together. . . . Is it not every day manifest when your house-girl informs you that Miss Johnson (your cook) says dinner is ready; that Mr. Jones (your butler) will hitch up ...

Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195326888
Category: History
Page: 579
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A new history of the American South during Reconstruction shows how a complex blending of new ideas and old hatreds developed in the region following the Civil War. By the author of Vengeance and Justice.

Language: en
Pages: 216

One South

Authors: John Shelton Reed

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-05-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

“If it can be said that there are many Souths,” wrote W. J. Cash in The Mind of the South, “the fact remains that there is also one South.” In the informal, engaging essays brought together in One South, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South’s strong regional identity and