Southern honor
Subtitle: ethics and behavior in the old South
By: Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
Subjects: Honor.; Southern States -- Civilization.; Southern States -- Moral conditions.
Description: "Bertram Wyatt-Brown's wide-ranging re-examination of pre-Civil War Southern culture demonstrates the pervasiveness of the age-old code of honor in many aspects of human relations, from child-rearing habits to criminal justice and lynch law. The author shows that honor was the animating force in the antebellum South, the very keystone of the slave-holding Southern morality." -- back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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