An old creed for the new South : proslavery ideology and historiography, 1865-1918

Resource Information

The work An old creed for the new South : proslavery ideology and historiography, 1865-1918 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

An old creed for the new South : proslavery ideology and historiography, 1865-1918

Title remainder

proslavery ideology and historiography, 1865-1918

Statement of responsibility

John David Smith

Creator

• Smith, John David, 1949-
• Smith, John David, 1949-

Subject

• Slavery -- United States -- Historiography
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918

Language

eng

Summary

An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. Award-winning historian John David Smith argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. Smith draws extensively on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches to counter the belief that debates over slavery ended with emancipation. After the Civil War, Americans in both the North and

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

326.0975/09034

Index

index present

LC call number

E441

LC item number

.S655 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography