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In 1856, when 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 and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the build-up to the Civil War.

Dueling Cultures Damnable Legacies

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In 1856, when Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous... Read more

    Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
    Publication Date: 6/26/2023 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780813949314, 978-0813949314
    ISBN10: 0813949319

    Number of Pages: 284

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    In 1856, when 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 and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the build-up to the Civil War.

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