Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era

Author:   James Hill Welborn III
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
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9780813949314


Pages:   284
Publication Date:   26 June 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   James Hill Welborn III
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
Imprint:   University of Virginia Press
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9780813949314


ISBN 10:   0813949319
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   26 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Introduction: Edgefield, S.C. as the Birthplace of Southern Righteous Honor 1. Honor: From Colonial Virility to Antebellum Refinement 2. Piety: The Ascent of Evangelical Protestantism 3. Righteous Honor: Merging the Ethics of Honor & Piety in the Early Antebellum Period 4. Moral Failings: Exorcising Inner Demons During the Sectional Crisis 5. The Conundrum of Slavery: Sanctioning Violence on Moral Grounds 6. 1856: Righteous Honor Triumphant 7. The Civil War & Reconstruction: Violent Conflict as Divine Contest Epilogue: The Damnable Legacies of Righteous Honor

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“In this book James Welborn makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the intersection of religion and honor culture in the antebellum South. While other scholars have often painted with a broad brush, Welborn’s rich account of the inner lives of two generations of white men in Edgefield is the first to study this relationship as lived by particular people in a particular place.” - Robert Elder, Baylor University, author of Calhoun: American Heretic“Perhaps no person epitomized the violence of the Civil War era South more than Edgefield, South Carolina’s most famous resident: Preston Brooks. In this compelling and gracefully written study, Welborn dives into the peculiar world of Brooks’s hometown to reveal a form of toxic masculinity that alternately exposed and resolved the tensions between Christian piety and Southern honor. This pervasive sense of 'righteous honor,' Welborn explains, consumed the minds and actions of elite white men far beyond Edgefield, leading them to commit acts of violence in the name of God. The prevalence of 'righteous honor' in today’s world should come as no surprise, as Welborn explains how this ethos survived the Civil War and continues to flourish in the present.” - Lisa Tendrich Frank, author of The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March


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James Hill ""Trae"" Welborn III is Professor in the Department of History and Geography at Georgia College & State University.

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