The South in the History of the Nation A Reader, Volume One: Through Reconstruction

by Link, William A.; Spruill, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780312133573
• ISBN10: 031213357X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

A new kind of primary source reader for the U.S. survey,The South in the History of the Nationenlivens American history for students in the South by placing it in familiar contexts. Fifteen chapters in each volume explore episodes and issues of national import with a broad swath of regional examples. More than 100 readings drawn from southern sources among them letters, speeches, diary entries, government records, newspaper articles, and interviews balance a variety of political and social topics. Because the organization and pace of the chapters parallel most major survey tests, instructors can easily incorporate the documents into the survey course without making extensive alternations to the syllabus. Generous editorial apparatus including chapter introductions that identify the relationship between the southern documents and the national history, headnotes, prereading questions, gloss notes, and bibliographies guides students through the documents and constantly emphasizes their role in the American history survey course.

Author Biography

WILLIAM A. LINK is department head and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is author of A Hard Country and Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920 (1986); The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1992); Power and Purpose in American Higher Education (1995); and The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths and Other Documents of Social Reform in the Progressive Era South (Bedford Books, 1996)

MARJORIE SPRUILL WHEELER, professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, is a former president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is best known for her work on the woman suffrage movement, including New Women of the South: Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (1993) and One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement (1995), the companion volume to the PBS documentary One Woman, One Vote.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Cultures in Conflict
Indian-European Encounters in the American South	1	(22)
The Spanish and the Indians in ``La Florida''	3	(8)
Garcilaso de la Vega
Indians in Virginia
Powhatan Address to John Smith	11	(2)
The English in Virginia	13	(4)
John Smith
The French on the Gulf Coast	17	(6)
Pierre Le Moyne
Sieur d'Iberville
Colonization
Religion and the Founding of Maryland	23	(17)
Catholic Intentions	25	(4)
Cecil Calvert
Lord Baltimore
Jesuit Missionaries	29	(4)
Father Edward Knott
A Violent Confrontation	33	(7)
Leonard Strong
The Crisis of The Late Seventeenth Century
Social Tensions and Rebellion in Virginia	40	(22)
The Servant's Experience	42	(7)
James Revel
The Lawne's Creek Rising
Evidence from the Surry County Deed Book and the Surry County Order Book, January 1674	49	(5)
Two Women View the Frontier	54	(2)
Elizabeth Bacon
Mary Horsmanden Byrd
Bacon's Rebellion
The Royal Commissioners, ``A True Narrative of the Late Rebellion in Virginia,'' 1677	56	(6)
The Eighteenth Century
Prosperity and the Planter Elite	62	(19)
A Life of Leisure	64	(5)
William Byrd
A Woman Planter in South Carolina	69	(7)
Eliza Pinckney
A Plantation Owner's Difficulties
Landon Carter, Entries from His Diary, 1766	76	(5)
Pre-Revolutionary America
The Regulators and the Carolina Backcountry in Turmoil	81	(21)
Pre-Revolutionary Turmoil: The North Carolina Regulators	83	(6)
Edmund Fanning
Samuel Spencer
The Regulator Critique	89	(3)
Joshua Teagues
A Regulator Perspective	92	(3)
Harmon Husbands
The Hillsborough Riot	95	(7)
Richard Henderson
The Revolution
A Proposal for Arming Slaves	102	(23)
The British Call Slaves to Arms	105	(1)
John Murray
A Patriot's ``Scheme''	106	(9)
Henry Laurens
John Laurens
Extreme Measures for Difficult Times	115	(6)
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Laurens
George Washington
Christopher Gadsden
John Laurens
David Ramsay
Defeated by a ``Triple-Headed Monster''	121	(4)
John Laurens
George Washington
The Creation of The American Republic
Slavery and the Constitution	125	(23)
Slavery and Representation	127	(7)
James Madison
The African Slave Trade	134	(4)
James Madison
A Southerner Opposes the Three-Fifths Clause	138	(2)
Luther Martin
Ratification
Debates in South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina, 1788	140	(8)
The New Republic
The Americanization of New Orleans?	148	(25)
Explaining the French Decision	151	(3)
Pierre Clement Laussat
Establishing a Government for Orleans Territory	154	(6)
Thomas Jefferson
William C. C. Claiborne
Fears for the Church in a Secular Republic
The Ursulines of New Orleans and Thomas Jefferson, Correspondence, 1804	160	(3)
Creoles Demand the Civil Law
Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans, Resolution, 1806	163	(5)
Changes in New Orleans Society	168	(5)
Benjamin Latrobe
The Age of Jackson
The Removal of the Cherokees	173	(23)
The Civilized State of the Cherokees	176	(6)
John Ridge
Disputing Georgia's Claim	182	(3)
Chief John Ross
Justifying Removal	185	(6)
Wilson Lumpkin
Andrew Jackson
The Trail of Tears	191	(5)
Evan Jones
Antebellum Reform
Religion and Morality in the Debate over Slavery	196	(25)
A Minister Defends Slavery	198	(4)
Richard Furman
Slavery Defended as Moral and Beneficial	202	(5)
George Fitzhugh
An Expatriate Urges Southern Women to Oppose Slavery	207	(7)
Angelina Grimke
A Former Slave Exposes Hypocrisy	214	(7)
Frederick Douglass
Westward Expansion
The Texas Frontier	221	(21)
Texas and the Union	223	(6)
Stephen F. Austin
Going to Texas	229	(6)
Ann Raney Thomas Coleman
Life in Texas	235	(7)
Frederick Law Olmsted
The Slave South
The Case of Jordan Hatcher	242	(17)
Trial and Conviction
Trial Record from the Case of Jordan Hatcher, 1852	244	(4)
Pleading for Justice
Petitions for and against Commutation, 1852	248	(2)
The Commutation	250	(3)
Governor Joseph Johnson
Virginians React
Newspaper Articles, 1852	253	(6)
The Sectional Crisis
John Brown's Raid, True Womanhood, and the Alienation of North and South	259	(16)
A Plea from Massachusetts	261	(2)
Lydia Maria Child
The Virginia Governor's Response	263	(2)
Governor Henry A. Wise
What Is a True Woman to Do?	265	(10)
Margaretta Mason
Lydia Maria Child
The Civil War
The Minds and Hearts of the Southern People	275	(36)
A Confederate Officer	278	(11)
William L. Nugent
A Confederate Soldier	289	(4)
John Dooley
A Young Woman in Occupied New Orleans	293	(7)
Clara Solomon
A Unionist from Tennessee	300	(5)
W. G. Brownlow
Black Loyalists in Louisiana
Letters and Petition, 1862 and 1864	305	(6)
Reconstruction
Black Freedom and the Ku Klux Klan	311	(3)
The Rise of the Klan	314	(9)
Alexander K. Davis
Lydia Anderson
A Northern View
Harper's Weekly, ``The Ku-Klux Conspiracy,'' 1872	323	(4)
Missionary Women and Black Education	327	(3)
Maria Waterbury
The Legacy of the Klan	330
Albion W. Tourgee