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The first and second parts of the book discuss reasons for the loss of the CSA. The book critiques earlier theories on why the Confederacy collapsed, [5] as well as earlier Civil War scholarship in general. [1] The book argues that the issues in the Southern economy did not primarily damage the military but instead damaged civilian life.
Even more perhaps than Uncle Tom's Cabin, it fed the fires of sectional controversy leading up to the Civil War; for it had the distinction of being the only book in American history to become the center of bitter and prolonged Congressional debate". [2]: 542 [note 1] In the Northern United States, it became "the book against slavery."
More than 6.5 million African Americans left the segregated South for the industrial cities of the Midwest and West Coast during the Great Migration, beginning in World War I and extending to 1970. Many migrants from Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas moved to California during and after World War II because of jobs in the defense industry.
Pre-Civil War definitions of the South often included Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware as well. However, "the South" is also a social, political, economic, and cultural construct that transcends these geographical boundaries. [6] Southern literature has been described by scholars as occupying a liminal space within wider American culture. [4]
Some characteristics of Southern hospitality were described as early as 1835, when Jacob Abbott attributed the poor quality of taverns in the South to the lack of need for them, given the willingness of Southerners to provide for strangers. [4] Abbott writes: [T]he hospitality of southerners is so profuse, that taverns are but poorly supported.
The fear of class divisions within the white community was enough to lead many Southerners who had previously been opponents of secession to embrace it after the election of Abraham Lincoln. After the war, Helper appeared as a Fire Eater, urging the wholesale expulsion of former slaves. He believed the United States should be exclusively white ...
Hire some more people!” Debbie said. “You’ve got a lot of kids coming home – this is a time of war. Cut back after the war!” Toward the end of a long conversation, Debbie paused, exhausted. “I don’t know what the answer is,” she acknowledged. Except the obvious: “There needs to be more people who can listen,” she said.
A significant number of Southern politicians attempted to relegalize the Atlantic slave trade [31] [32] and pass laws that would require every free black in the South to choose a master or mistress. Many people on both sides of the war (with exceptions including Robert E. Lee and William T. Sherman) thought that the war would be short at first ...