James Mcpherson's Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism

Even at the beginning of the Republic they shared the common bond of owning slaves. But eventually the North and South began to pull in different directions and began to segregate in to two different cultures. In McPherson’s article he states that in both the Northern and Southern society’s white supremacy was a standard way of thinking but the two had different scales from which they measured.1 We can see

introduced in 1619 and being highly encouraged once indentured servants were gone, the Columbian Exchange, and cash crops being on the rise in the South. Slavery being McPherson’s first theme in the preface, him expressing that theme throughout parts two, four, and one. Part one titled, “Origins of The Civil War” as seen in through exceptionalism in which the South possessed a separate and unique identity different from the rest of America. As William H. Seward, undermined,