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Author: L. Diane Barnes

The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South’s Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform, cities, and industry. Considered as proponents of American manifest destiny, for example, antebellum southern politicians look more like nationalists and less like separatists. Though situated within distinct communities, Southerners’-white, black, and red-participated in and responded to movements global in scope and transformative in effect. The turmoil that changes in Asian and European agriculture wrought among southern staple producers shows the interconnections between seemingly isolated southern farms and markets in distant lands. Deprovincializing the antebellum South, The Old South’s Modern Worlds illuminates a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex transformations of the nineteenth-century world.

Part II: Slavery in a Modernizing Society
4. “A Disposition to Work”: Rural Enslaved Laborers on the Eve of the Civil War – Larry E. Hudson, Jr.
5. Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South – Steven Deyle
6. The Pregnant Economies of the Border South, 1840-1860: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Possibilities of Slave-Labor Expansion – James L. Huston

Part III: Material Progress and Its Discontents
7. The Southern Path to Modern Cities: Urbanization in the Slave States – Frank Towers
8. “Swerve Me?”: The South, Railroads, and the Rush to Modernity – William G. Thomas
9. Industry and Its Laborers, Free and Slave in Late-Antebellum Virginia – L. Diane Barnes

Part IV: The Blurred Boundaries of Southern Culture
10. Zion in Black and White: African-American Evangelicals and Missionary Work in the Old South – Charles F. Irons
11. The Return of the Native: Innovative Traditions in the Southeast – Andrew K. Frank
12. Sex, Self, and the Performance of Patriarchal Manhood in the Old South – Craig Thompson Friend

Part V: The Long View of the Old South
13. Counterpoint: What If Genovese Is Right?: The Premodern Outlook of Southern Planters – Marc Egnal
14. The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage – Edward L. Ayers

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