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A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

Sterling Professor of History

51:00·2008·introductory level

Professor Blight examines the Antebellum South as a "slave society" in the global historical context. He deconstructs the multifaceted proslavery arguments advanced in the period, encompassing biblical, historical, economic, cynical, and utopian justifications.

HistoryEngineeringModern History & GeopoliticsControl & Dynamical SystemsAmerican Civil WarAntebellum South

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

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A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement

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