The Shaping of Southern Culture
Subtitle: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780807825969
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; Race And Ethnic Relations; U.S. Local History - Southern States; History; History - U.S.; Rhetoric; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Honor; General; United States - Civil War; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Southern States; 1775-1865; Civilization; Moral conditions; Social aspects
First sentence: In 1829 Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, a lowly slave from Adams County, Mississippi, returned to his African homeland, perhaps the only slave ever do so from the soil of the American republic.