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A Nation Divided Ser.: Studies in the Civil War Era: Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies : Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn and James Hill Welborn III (2023, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press

ISBN-100813949327

ISBN-139780813949321

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Number of Pages284 Pages

LanguageEnglish

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

Publication Year2023

SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

TypeTextbook

AuthorJames Hill Welborn, James Hill Welborn III

Subject AreaHistory

SeriesA Nation Divided Ser.: Studies in the Civil War Era

FormatTrade Paperback

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LCCN2023-000932

ReviewsPerhaps 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, 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, "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, 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., At once scrutinizing individuals and surveying subtle transformations across several generations, author James Hill Welborn III's work broadens our understanding of the antebellum South on every level. Largely constructed around prominent slaveholding families in Edgefield, South Carolina, Welborn's research serves not only as perhaps the best and certainly most thorough examination of the Fire Eater heartland, but also as a superior articulation of the growth and proliferation of righteous honor and how it spurred the regional animosity leading to the Civil War . . . A genuinely page-turning read, more engaging by far than most histories of its kind. -- North Carolina Historical Review, 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., By examining the lives of a select number of elite slaveholders in Edgefield, South Carolina, Welborn uses the community as a case study to examine the complex dualism that existed between honor and piety (a concept the author calls righteous honor) that defined the antebellum South. . . . Dueling Cultures is a solid community study with notable emphasis on interrelated sectional and national events. As an academic work, the book will appeal to historians and students who wish to broaden their understanding of the sociocultural complexities of white supremacy in the antebellum South. -- H-CivWar, 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.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973.71

Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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

SynopsisHow did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honour that instructed them to do just the opposite--to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ......, How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honour that instructed them to do just the opposite--to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ideals to forge a new compound: a wrathful moral ethic of righteous honour. Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies investigates the formation and proliferation of this white supremacist ideology that merged masculine bellicosity with religious devotion.In 1856, when Edgefield native Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honour reached its apogee and took national centre stage. Welborn analyses the birth of this peculiar moral ethic in Edgefield and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the build-up to the Civil War, as white Southerners sought to cloak a war fought in defense of slavery in the language of honour and Christian piety., How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite--to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ideals to forge a new compound: a wrathful moral ethic of righteous honor. Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies investigates the formation and proliferation of this white supremacist ideology that merged masculine bellicosity with religious devotion. In 1856, when Edgefield native Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honor reached its apogee and took national center stage. Welborn analyzes the birth of this peculiar moral ethic in Edgefield and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the buildup to the Civil War, as white Southerners sought to cloak a war fought in defense of slavery in the language of honor and Christian piety., How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite?to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ideals to forge a new compound: a wrathful moral ethic of righteous honor. Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies investigates the formation and proliferation of this white supremacist ideology that merged masculine bellicosity with religious devotion. In 1856, when Edgefield native Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honor reached its apogee and took national center stage. Welborn analyzes the birth of this peculiar moral ethic in Edgefield and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the buildup to the Civil War, as white Southerners sought to cloak a war fought in defense of slavery in the language of honor and Christian piety.

LC Classification NumberF279.E38W45 2023