A Year Of The South

Imagine a historian, author of an award-winning dissertation and several books. He is an experienced lecturer and respected scholar; he is at the forefront of his field. His research methodology sets the bar for other academicians. He is so highly esteemed, in fact, that an article he has prepared is to be presented to and discussed by the United States’ oldest and largest society of professional historians. These are precisely the circumstances in which Ulrich B. Phillips wrote his 1928 essay, “The Central Theme of Southern History.” In this treatise he set forth a thesis which on its face is not revolutionary: that the cause behind which the South stood unified was not slavery, as such, but white supremacy. Over the course of

William W. Freehling's book The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War tells a unique story about the Civil War and one that is not typically discussed in history books. The book is about divisions within the southern culture, which might have led to the outcome of the war in favor of the Union. Perhaps all black southerners had a vested interest in the North's victory, but many white southerners felt the same way for many reasons. In The South vs. The South, Freehling discusses the way the Union used divisions in the south as a war strategy, such as by recruiting potentially neutral Americans living in border states. Recruiting soldiers from border states and western states with less entrenched plantation cultures versus their Dixie counterparts was one of Lincoln's key strategies and also helped General Grant secure some key military victories.

Do you feel that there is equality in North Carolina? If you say yes, this is partially due to the Greensboro Sit Ins and the Civil Rights Movement. Many in North Carolina were impacted by the audacity of what started as some students and the black community members who protested for equality of races even right here in North Carolina, where we call home. “Despite advances in the fight for racial equality (including the landmark 1954 Supreme Court verdict in Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott), segregation was still the norm across the southern United States in 1960.” Depending on whose perspective is looked at, some may still feel segregation is the norm in some cases. These racial segregations have been an issue longer than one can imagine, but from these certain events, life has improved and has become a lot easier for everyone in that case. We no longer have to worry about where we sit or who we can or cannot serve or who we can or cannot talk to.

He bartered to have the Union soldiers go to Madam’s house to announce the confederate defeat in exchange for a whisky bottle. The union soldiers did exactly that. After doing so the freedmen and their wives along with other freedmen headed to Memphis, escorted some of the way by the same soldiers. There they made a living, or idled about enjoying their new freedom. However, Lou and his company had decided to go to Cincinnati to see if they could find Matilda’s mother which eventually they did. Lou was able adapt and succeed in almost any job he was given due to his background of working with similar jobs he had held before. Lou was able to adapt in such a way to where it is believed he was successful after the war in the terms of the new freedom he had attained. Lou was able to supersede adversity of the changing political and economic crisis of the south after the war.

In the book Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson, one is given the opportunity to look at slavery from beyond the plantations which many are have been accustomed to read about in school, going to the main root and essence of this whole entire system which is the actual slave market, particularly the New Orleans slave market. In the 19th century the New Orleans slave market was the largest and leading institution to trade in the whole entire country, to the extent of being “compared to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston.” Johnson looked to try to present perspectives of what it what the “average” day looked like at these slave trades, not only of those whom were under oppression but also those whom are causing it so that the reader may receive a mutual idea of what was going on in each other’s heads to ultimately “to investigate what each had at stake and how each tried to shape the outcome.”

Over the last three decades several United States auto jobs have migrated to the South. Some of the things that have attracted these auto giants to these Southern States is the cost of living and operating advantages which far surpass those of their Northern counterparts, which also attract more white-collar workers. The Volvo plant is no different, their goal for building in South Carolina is an attempt to re-focus it US market share, which had long diminished. Although having these auto giants, such as Volvo come in to these small rural towns to encourage growth and development, what effect does it really have in the community?

On 1840, the South was at the cutting edge of the American Market Revolution and it annually produced and exported 1.5 million bales of raw cotton; over two-thirds of the world ‘s supply…its economy was larger and richer than that of most nations (Henretta, Edwards, and Self 351). The agricultural economy of the South was continually to grow. Many plantation owners became wealthy and living a comfortable life. Life in the South was good, at least for some citizens. But at what costs the growth of the economy in the South? The growing economy of the South causes more burden than benefit, because it’s promoted slave economy, monopolistic business nature, and unnecessary suffering.

In the early 1880s after the Civil War ended, the hopefulness of the post Civil War years disintegrated. Reconstruction, the political program designed to reintegrate the defeated South into the Union as a slavery free region, began to fail. Concerned about maintaining power, many Southern politicians began an effort to control and oppress the black men and women whom the war had freed. “The period after the Civil War when the problem was not unjust laws but lack of support for laws guaranteeing freedom civil rights, [was] a period of time in which Twain was writing his novel.” (Brook p.26). This time heavily influenced Twain to incorporate the cruciality of equality into his writings. Although the 13th amendment of the Constitution was established to ban slavery,

On May 9, 1865 we’ve heard that the Civil War had already ended and the Union had won. To me nothing didn't seem to have change my dad and I both woke up early in the morning and kept working till the sun went down every afternoon. The weather is getting colder and my dad older he works slower every day and I have to help him more. Some plantations around us were damaged because of the Union soldiers . It’s December 9, 1865 and I overheard the adults talking about the 13th amendment it has been ratified and we’re officially no longer slaves. I went running back to the plantation and tell my father the goods new because now he would be able to relax and get himself feeling a whole lot better. I remember how my owner’s daughter would come out

In the section, Life in the South, it explains life on small farms, plantations, and education. Most white people in the South were yeomen, tenant farmers, and the rural poor. The yeomen were farmers who owned land, but no slaves. They grew crops that were sold and used for themselves. Another group were the tenant farmers. These farmers didn’t own land and usually worked on their landlords estates. There were also the rural poor people of the South. These people refused to take jobs that were like the slaves jobs. Although they were looked down upon by other people, they took pride in themselves for being “self-sufficient.” Even though that many whites were small farmers, there were still some plantations. The goals of plantation owners was

Shenton, James P. The Reconstruction: A Documentary History of the South after the War: 1865

A high pressure system sits much of the year over the Atlantic Ocean between Florida and north Africa. Known as the 'Bermuda High' (and bringing great weather to Bermuda most of time), this high pressure system circulates in a clockwise direction, moving warm air from the equator into the South.

I was raised in the south nestled in a small town outside of an even smaller city in North Carolina. Growing up in the south was an education on it’s on. For starters, I was not short of discipline. I realized that a lot of my friends’ parents just “negotiated” with them from age two and beyond. This is not acceptable in the south. One of my most formative memories is being popped in the mouth by my grandmother in front of the entire line at Winn-Dixie because I called her a name - one that rhymes with "witch" but starts with a B. It was a moment equivalent in education to about four full years of schooling. This brings me to the next quality important in the south; Respect or elders. Talking back to an adult in the south, or not calling someone ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ is a one-way ticket to not being able to sit on your rear-end for about a week. Even today, as an adult in my 20’s, I still call older people “Mr.” and “Ms.” out of force of habit. I’ll likely do it until I am dead because my parents have drilled this into my brain since I was a small child.

By virtue of drawing the parallels between the ideals of the Old South and Dubois’ inherent struggle to actualize her irreconcilable beliefs, it becomes important to understand the method that Dubois utilizes in order to cope with her internal struggles. The loss of Belle Reve amalgamated with the failure of society to accept her ultimately distorts her perception of reality. As aforementioned earlier, Dubois tries to maintain the conventions of the Old South, struggling to internalize the notion that those set of ideals had evanesced away from the society in which she had shoehorned herself into. The social stratification of the Old South dictated that Southern Belles be wed with a respectable and southernly gentleman; moreover, Allan

A twelve year old teenager is sitting in a car, and he is travelling from Washington State to Georgia. When he arrives, he finds the temperature warmer, and he finds that his new middle school is a blue ribbon school. I am that teenager, and I am living here in Alpharetta, Georgia. Living in Seattle for many years, I can say that the South is a huge contrast from the North, but there are still many things I like about the South. The climate is very warm, and the weather is really nice during the summer and the winter. It is much cheaper to live in the South than the North, and it is even cheaper to live in the South when you compare it to living in Seattle. There are also more educational opportunities in the South, and there are award winning colleges in the South such as Emory, Georgia Tech, and Georgia Perimeter College. I believe there are many things to like about living in the South, and I hope to stay here for a long time.