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A celebrated social history, ""Life and Labor in the Old South""
(1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and
reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum
South by a leading historian of the first half of the twentieth
century. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) sought to include
populations neglected in earlier scholarship as a means of
underscoring the region's complex diversity and the importance of
human interaction. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully
focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully
written, Phillips' germinal account set the standard for his
contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism,
racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives.
Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned
this study its place at the forefront of texts in the
historiography of the antebellum South and African American
slavery. This edition includes a new introduction by John David
Smith that frames the volume within Progressive Era scholarship,
chronicles its critical reception, and highlights its influence on
contemporary historical debates.
First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix
of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian
history in the Southeast. The historian John Walton Caughey's brief
but definitive biography of Creek leader Alexander McGillivray
(1750-1793) is coupled with 214 letters between McGillivray and
Spanish and American political officials. The volume offers
distinctive firsthand insights into Creek and Euroamerican
diplomacy in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in the aftermath of
the American Revolution as well as a glimpse into how historians
have viewed the controversial Creek leader. McGillivray, the son of
a famous Scottish Indian trader and a Muskogee Creek woman, was
educated in Charleston, South Carolina, and, with his father's
guidance, took up the mantle of negotiator for the Creek people
during and after the Revolution. While much of eighteenth-century
American Indian history relies on accounts written by non-Indians,
the letters reprinted in this volume provide a valuable Indian
perspective into Creek diplomatic negotiations with the Americans
and the Spanish in the American South. Crafty and literate,
McGillivray's letters reveal his willingness to play American and
Spanish interests against one another. Whether he was motivated
solely by a devotion to his native people or by the advancement of
his own ambitions is the subject of much historical debate.
A memoir of the ambitious life and controversial political career
of Louisiana governor Henry Clay Warmoth (1842-1931), ""War,
Politics, and Reconstruction"" is a firsthand account of the
political and social machinations of Civil War America and the
war's aftermath in one of the most volatile states of the defeated
Confederacy. An Illinois native, Warmoth arrived in Louisiana in
1864 as part of the federal occupation forces. Upon leaving
military service in 1865, he established a legal practice in New
Orleans. Taking full advantage of the chaotic times, Warmoth
rapidly amassed fortune and influence, and soon emerged as a leader
of the state's Republican Party and, in 1868, was elected governor.
Amid an administration rife with scandal, the Louisiana Republican
Party broke into warring factions. Warmoth survived an impeachment
attempt in 1872, but a second attempt in 1873 culminated with his
removal from office. This fall from Republican grace stemmed from
his allegiance with white conservatives, remnants of the old guard,
and staunch opponents of those Republicans who sought a wider
political role for African Americans. Never again to hold political
office, Warmoth remained in his adopted Louisiana, enjoying the
fruits of his investments in plantations and sugar refineries. In
1930, the year before his death, he published ""War, Politics, and
Reconstruction"", a vindication of his public life and a rebuttal
of his carpetbagger reputation. Despite Warmoth's obvious
self-serving biases, the volume offers unparalleled personal
insights into the inner workings of Reconstruction government in
Louisiana in the words of one of its key architects. A new
introduction by John C. Rodrigue places Warmoth's memoir within the
broader context of evolving perceptions and historiography of
Reconstruction. Rodrigue also offers readers a more balanced
portrait of Warmoth by providing supplemental information omitted
or slighted by the author in his efforts to cast his actions in the
most positive light.
The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in
the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston makes available for a new
generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolina's
most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of
slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. Often
cited by historians, Robert F. W. Allston's letters, speeches,
receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice
industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War. As Daniel
C. Littlefield underscores in his introduction to the new edition,
these papers are significant not only because of Allston's position
at the apex of planter society but also because his views
represented those of the rice planter elite. Allston (1801-1864)
owned or managed seven plantations along the Pee Dee and Waccamaw
rivers, including Chicora Wood, Rose Bank, and Brookgreen, now
known as Brookgreen Gardens. A Jeffersonian republican, he served
in the South Carolina General Assembly from 1832 until he was
elected governor in 1856. After his death in 1864, his daughter
Elizabeth Allston Pringle continued the family's rice-growing
activities and achieved personal renown as a columnist for the New
York Times and author of A Woman Rice Planter. The collection
includes letters between Allston and his wife and children,
correspondence with politicians, fiscal documents from the
operation of his plantations, records related to the sale and care
of slaves, and political speeches.
An early assessment of the contest between an economically defunct
and politically aggressive Southern slave power and a liberal,
free-wage-labor North The Slave Power, John E. Cairnes's seminal
work on slavery, was widely acclaimed upon publication in 1862 as a
brilliant attempt both to explain the essential cause of the
American Civil War and to shape European policy concerning the
struggle. It remains among the most important works on the
political economy of Southern slavery. When Cairnes--one of the
nineteenth century's preeminent classical liberal
economists--characterized Southern slavery as inefficient and
backward, his opinions carried enormous weight, earning him
applause in the North and castigation in the slave- holding South.
Casting the Civil War as a contest between an economically defunct
and politically aggressive Southern slave power and a liberal,
capitalist, free-wage-labor North, Cairnes offered an
interpretation of the origins of the Civil War that has remained as
compelling and controversial as it was when first published. Mark
M. Smith's new introduction to the work places The Slave Power in
historical context by explaining the intellectual milieu in which
the book was written (including a treatment of classical liberal
economic thought in Great Britain), the book's friendly reception
in Union circles, and its rejection by war-torn Confederates. Smith
also traces the book's reception by successive generations of
historians of the slave South.
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