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Eugene Genovese

Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) was the premier historian on slavery in the United States and wrote extensively on the American South. His Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the Bancroft Prize, while he and his wife wrote substantial intellectual histories of the antebellum South, the last being The Mind of the Master Class. Genovese admired the Southern tradition and men like M.E. Bradford and Clyde Wilson.

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James Henley Thornwell and Southern Religion

The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during the long struggle of countless, if largely unsung, preachers to civilize a harsh and violent frontier. Personal piety and Bible-centered family circles bolstered the churches in a successful effort to shape the regional culture. The churches assumed responsibility for the education, especially moral, of the…
Eugene Genovese
May 5, 2015