Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Explains the importance of the concept of honor in Southern society and examines family relationships, courtship, marriage, miscegenation, dueling, and slave insurrections
Genres: HistoryAmerican HistoryNonfictionCivil WarAmerican Civil WarCulturalResearchSociology
597 Pages

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