Ritchie Devon Watson 
Normans and Saxons [EPUB ebook] 
Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War

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When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners as a confirmation of southern barbarity. Public opinion was similarly divided nearly three-and-a-half years later after abolitionist John Brown’s raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, with northerners crowning John Bro...

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Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. is professor emeritus of English at Randolph-Macon College. His previous books include Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the ...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9780807149263 ● File size 2.1 MB ● Publisher LSU Press ● City Baton Rouge ● Country US ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5054094 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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