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Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

Sterling Professor of History

52:07·2008·introductory level

Professor Blight examines the social, cultural, and economic distinctiveness of the Antebellum South, contrasting it with the North. The lecture analyzes the influence of anti-modernism, honor culture, and the booming slave-based cotton economy on the region's identity.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsAntebellum SouthSlavery EconomicsAmerican Civil War Origins

The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)

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David W. BlightPulitzer Prize Winner

Pulitzer Prize for History · Sterling Professor of History · Yale University

David W. Blight is a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian renowned for his definitive scholarship on the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

1 course · 22 lecturesCanon
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