Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil WarLSU Press, 2008 - 296 pagini When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners as a confirmation of southern barbarity. Public opinion was similarly divided nearly three-and-a-half years later after abolitionist John Brown's raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with northerners crowning John Brown as a martyr to the cause of freedom as southerners excoriated him as a consciousness fanatic. These events opened American minds to the possibility that North and South might be incompatible societies, but some of Dixie's defenders were willing to go one step further -- to propose that northerners and southerners represented not just a "divided people" but two scientifically distinct races. In Normans and Saxons, Ritchie Watson, Jr., explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of these divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. |
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... notions of personal honor, he could have had at best an imperfect apprehension of the outrage that would compel Butler's kinsman to stand be- fore him on the afternoon of May 21 with cane in hand. From the point of view of southerners ...
... notion of legal action never entered Brooks's mind, the idea of challenging Sumner to a duel certainly did. By 1856, northerners had over- whelmingly come to judge the code duello as a crude manifestation of law- lessness, but many ...
... notions of justice, of class, and of honor that seemed to be the products of fundamentally different northern and southern cultures. The censure vote suggested that these opposing cultural values could not be reconciled in the political ...
... notion that northerners and southerners were two distinct peoples did not spring forth fully formed in 1860 as if from a vacuum. As early as 1785 Thomas Jefferson had written a letter minutely detailing the dif- ferences between the ...
... notion of southern class su- periority but also a notion of race superiority could be employed as part of an effective apologia for the southern way of life. Thomas Hart Benton's national racial myth, the myth of a common “Celtic-Anglo ...
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Mythology and Southern Polemics | 72 |
4 Race Mythology and Antebellum Fiction | 93 |
Northern Racial Mythmaking | 119 |
6 A Proud HighToned People Repudiate the Scum of the North | 135 |
7 Northern Vandals versus Southern Ruffians | 169 |
8 Poetry Fights the Civil War | 201 |
Race Mythology the Lost Cause and TwentiethCentury Southern Sectionalism | 235 |
Notes | 253 |
Index | 275 |
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