The New South is the Old South

The New South is the Old South

After reading the first half of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz, I've come to the conclusion that I would be fine if the South seceded again.  The book starts out nice enough with the reenactors in

Kennington to Speak on St. Louis Freedom Suits

The Field House Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, continues its “online programming with a Speaker Series event on August 19 at 7 p.m.   Dr.
Kelly Kennington, author and associate professor at Auburn University, will be joining us [for a "live-stream author talk"] on her book In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America.  Drawing on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the legal arena of St. Louis, she explores new perspectives on the legal culture of slavery and the negotiated processes involved in freedom suits.”  More.

--Dan Ernst

Free blacks in the South...

• lived mostly in the Lower South.


• generally acknowledged unity with the enslaved population.


• won the right to trial by jury in criminal cases.


• were able to travel fairly widely without identification papers.

ANSWER: Free blacks in the South generally acknowledged unity with the enslaved population.

Planters failed to politically dominate the South because...

• they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.


• they did not enfranchise the entire white population of voters. 


• they did not foster party competition. 


• they did not create apportionment based on population.

ANSWER: Planters failed to politically dominate the South because they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.