Edward L. Ayers
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195086898
- eISBN:
- 9780199854226
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195086898.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This book represents an abridgement of previous work, Promise of the New South, which tells the history of the American South between the 1870s and the 1900s. It offers a glimpse into a society ...
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This book represents an abridgement of previous work, Promise of the New South, which tells the history of the American South between the 1870s and the 1900s. It offers a glimpse into a society undergoing the sudden confrontation with the promises, costs, and consequences of modern life. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee Mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, the book depicts a land of startling contrasts—a time of progress and repression, of new industries and old ways. It takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic “Redeemers” swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. It explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Here is the local Baptist congregation, the country store, the tobacco-stained second-class railroad car, the rise of Populism. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement. The book weaves all these details into the contradictory story of the New South, showing how the region developed the patterns it was to follow for the next fifty years.Less
This book represents an abridgement of previous work, Promise of the New South, which tells the history of the American South between the 1870s and the 1900s. It offers a glimpse into a society undergoing the sudden confrontation with the promises, costs, and consequences of modern life. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee Mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, the book depicts a land of startling contrasts—a time of progress and repression, of new industries and old ways. It takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic “Redeemers” swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. It explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Here is the local Baptist congregation, the country store, the tobacco-stained second-class railroad car, the rise of Populism. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement. The book weaves all these details into the contradictory story of the New South, showing how the region developed the patterns it was to follow for the next fifty years.
Edward L. Ayers
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195086898
- eISBN:
- 9780199854226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195086898.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter describes a new generation of Southern intellectuals who favored secular causes rather than religious ones, focusing their certainties on history, literature, politics, race relations, ...
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This chapter describes a new generation of Southern intellectuals who favored secular causes rather than religious ones, focusing their certainties on history, literature, politics, race relations, and education. This chapter also discusses the life and causes of William P. Trent. Nonetheless, sports became an important part of public culture in the region. Football was the sport of choice. This chapter also looks at the beginnings of sectional reconciliation. Militarization is discussed likewise in relation to the inception of war. This chapter also briefly touches on the peak of the cult of confederacy and the lost cause. However, Southern race relations remained unstable and malleable even after disenfranchisement and segregation, marked by sharp contrasting tendencies. This chapter also looks at the birth of the fight of the blacks for their full manhood rights.Less
This chapter describes a new generation of Southern intellectuals who favored secular causes rather than religious ones, focusing their certainties on history, literature, politics, race relations, and education. This chapter also discusses the life and causes of William P. Trent. Nonetheless, sports became an important part of public culture in the region. Football was the sport of choice. This chapter also looks at the beginnings of sectional reconciliation. Militarization is discussed likewise in relation to the inception of war. This chapter also briefly touches on the peak of the cult of confederacy and the lost cause. However, Southern race relations remained unstable and malleable even after disenfranchisement and segregation, marked by sharp contrasting tendencies. This chapter also looks at the birth of the fight of the blacks for their full manhood rights.
Sean A. Scott
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395990
- eISBN:
- 9780199866557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395990.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, History of Religion
By the middle of 1864, war weariness was causing many religious civilians to lose patience with northern Copperheads and southern Rebels. Calls for vengeance and retribution against traitors echoed ...
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By the middle of 1864, war weariness was causing many religious civilians to lose patience with northern Copperheads and southern Rebels. Calls for vengeance and retribution against traitors echoed throughout the North, even among believers commanded to forgive their enemies. The election of 1864 was a bellwether that would signify whether or not the war would be prosecuted to the very end and slavery destroyed. Although prospects for Lincoln's reelection looked bleak in early August, battlefield victories turned the tide in his favor. In his Second Inaugural, the president spoke of the inscrutability of God's sovereignty, an outlook that contradicted the dominant view espoused by most northern ministers and laity. With Lee's surrender, religious Northerners were confident that God had willed the preservation of the Union.Less
By the middle of 1864, war weariness was causing many religious civilians to lose patience with northern Copperheads and southern Rebels. Calls for vengeance and retribution against traitors echoed throughout the North, even among believers commanded to forgive their enemies. The election of 1864 was a bellwether that would signify whether or not the war would be prosecuted to the very end and slavery destroyed. Although prospects for Lincoln's reelection looked bleak in early August, battlefield victories turned the tide in his favor. In his Second Inaugural, the president spoke of the inscrutability of God's sovereignty, an outlook that contradicted the dominant view espoused by most northern ministers and laity. With Lee's surrender, religious Northerners were confident that God had willed the preservation of the Union.
Lon Kurashige
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469629438
- eISBN:
- 9781469629452
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629438.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter focuses on the debate over Asian immigration exclusion between the enactment of Japanese exclusion and World War II. During this time, prominent opponents of Japanese exclusion shifted ...
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This chapter focuses on the debate over Asian immigration exclusion between the enactment of Japanese exclusion and World War II. During this time, prominent opponents of Japanese exclusion shifted tactics to clear up racial and international misunderstanding through scholarly research, educational initiatives, and campaigns to repeal Japanese exclusion. They did this mainly through the establishment of two institutions: Survey of Race Relations at Stanford University and the Institute of Pacific Relations, initially based in Hawaii. At the same time, proponents of Japanese exclusion moved on to push for the exclusion of Filipino immigrants and the repatriation of those already in the U.S. This was achieved, but only by Congress granting independence to the U.S. colony of the Philippines. Egalitarian views of Filipinos, Japanese, and other Asian immigrant groups gained support within a new and powerful national labor union, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Despite the continuation of Asian exclusion, the 1930s was a transitional period in which new opportunities and institutions emerged to combat it.Less
This chapter focuses on the debate over Asian immigration exclusion between the enactment of Japanese exclusion and World War II. During this time, prominent opponents of Japanese exclusion shifted tactics to clear up racial and international misunderstanding through scholarly research, educational initiatives, and campaigns to repeal Japanese exclusion. They did this mainly through the establishment of two institutions: Survey of Race Relations at Stanford University and the Institute of Pacific Relations, initially based in Hawaii. At the same time, proponents of Japanese exclusion moved on to push for the exclusion of Filipino immigrants and the repatriation of those already in the U.S. This was achieved, but only by Congress granting independence to the U.S. colony of the Philippines. Egalitarian views of Filipinos, Japanese, and other Asian immigrant groups gained support within a new and powerful national labor union, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Despite the continuation of Asian exclusion, the 1930s was a transitional period in which new opportunities and institutions emerged to combat it.
Lindsey Apple
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134109
- eISBN:
- 9780813135908
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134109.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Henry Clay felt a keen sense of duty to nation, state, and community. Generally shunning politics, his descendants served in the military—every engagement from the Mexican War through Vietnam—both as ...
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Henry Clay felt a keen sense of duty to nation, state, and community. Generally shunning politics, his descendants served in the military—every engagement from the Mexican War through Vietnam—both as professional and citizen soldiers. Family members also supported progressive era reform, woman's suffrage, and the treatment of tuberculosis and mental illness. In the late nineteenth century, a duty to service developed as a sense of noblesse oblige, assuring philanthropic efforts and direct aid to the less fortunate, notably African Americans. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge might well have filled the shoes of her great grandfather had society given her the right to vote and hold office and if she had escaped the Clay legacy of illness and untimely death. Unfortunately, noblesse oblige also included a sense of paternalism. The Clay story reflects the tortured history of race relations in the United States.Less
Henry Clay felt a keen sense of duty to nation, state, and community. Generally shunning politics, his descendants served in the military—every engagement from the Mexican War through Vietnam—both as professional and citizen soldiers. Family members also supported progressive era reform, woman's suffrage, and the treatment of tuberculosis and mental illness. In the late nineteenth century, a duty to service developed as a sense of noblesse oblige, assuring philanthropic efforts and direct aid to the less fortunate, notably African Americans. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge might well have filled the shoes of her great grandfather had society given her the right to vote and hold office and if she had escaped the Clay legacy of illness and untimely death. Unfortunately, noblesse oblige also included a sense of paternalism. The Clay story reflects the tortured history of race relations in the United States.
Rebecca Cawood McIntyre
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813036953
- eISBN:
- 9780813038667
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036953.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race ...
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Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans. This book focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South's modern identity, and the book reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South “southern” as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. It also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Less
Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans. This book focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South's modern identity, and the book reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South “southern” as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. It also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Melissa Milewski
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190249182
- eISBN:
- 9780190249212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190249182.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, American History: 20th Century
Chapter 6 examines the fraud cases that black southerners litigated against whites in the first two decades of the twentieth century, in which they accused whites of deception in property dealings. ...
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Chapter 6 examines the fraud cases that black southerners litigated against whites in the first two decades of the twentieth century, in which they accused whites of deception in property dealings. Such cases formed an unusually large proportion of civil cases involving black and white litigants in the state supreme courts examined during the first two decades of the twentieth century. In case after case, black litigants testified about their diligence in attempting to understand contracts, their own ignorance and vulnerability to deception, and their trust in the defendant. As such testimony appealed to white judges’ and jury members’ ideas of racial superiority and paternalism, as well as the legal claims needed to prove fraud, their cases often proved successful despite the widespread loss of rights and fraud occurring around them.Less
Chapter 6 examines the fraud cases that black southerners litigated against whites in the first two decades of the twentieth century, in which they accused whites of deception in property dealings. Such cases formed an unusually large proportion of civil cases involving black and white litigants in the state supreme courts examined during the first two decades of the twentieth century. In case after case, black litigants testified about their diligence in attempting to understand contracts, their own ignorance and vulnerability to deception, and their trust in the defendant. As such testimony appealed to white judges’ and jury members’ ideas of racial superiority and paternalism, as well as the legal claims needed to prove fraud, their cases often proved successful despite the widespread loss of rights and fraud occurring around them.
