The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking | Paul M. Gaston
After the Civil War southern leaders promulgated a philosophy designed to enrich the region, restore its power and prestige, ease its guilt over slavery, and lay the race question to rest. Paul Gaston traces the development of this New South creed and shows how it joined the antebellum illusion of the Old South as a genuine social myth.
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