HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 02 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region. Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a survey of that manner
in which commentators - American, foreign, northern, and southern - have sought to make sense of the nature of southern society and southern history. The lecture analyzes the society and culture of the Old South, with special emphasis on the aspects of
southern life that made the region distinct from the antebellum North. The most lasting and influential sources of Old South distinctiveness, Blight suggests, were that society's anti-modernism, its emphasis on honor, and the booming slave economy
that developed in the South from the 1820s to the 1860s.
(from oyc.yale.edu)
Lecture 02 - Southern Society
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction: The Southern Memory of the Civil War
[00:14:22]
2. Similarities and Differences between the Antebellum North and South
[00:24:44]
3. Reputation and Honor ? Characteristics of Old South Society