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Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. This mythology cast southerners as descendants of the Normans of eleventh-century England and thus also of the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century.

Normans and Saxons

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A Paperback by Ritchie Devon Watson Jr.

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    Publisher: LSU Press
    Publication Date: 4/12/2023 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780807178881, 978-0807178881
    ISBN10: 0807178888
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    Literary studies: general Civil wars

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    Book Synopsis
    Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. This mythology cast southerners as descendants of the Normans of eleventh-century England and thus also of the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century.

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