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The speed of modernization of southern society was retarded in part by the “Northern man” keeping them down, but was equally and perhaps more retarded by the persistence of ante-bellum cultural attitudes into the 20th Century and reactionary elements responding both to the loss of the Civil War and keeping the black man down.
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The key term here is “conversion” and not “reconstruction” because prior to the Civil War there was very little in the way of industrialization in the South and so very little of ante-bellum industry to rebuild after the War.
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As you may know, General Sherman burned a path from Atlanta to the sea, but he spared Savannah and gave it as a Christmas present to President Lincoln-intact … which is why we have so many ante-bellum mansions that have been preserved, including some of the old plantation houses.
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While there have been other debates over the power of the national government in pre Civil War America - such as the funding of internal improvements, tariff and nullification - the primary motor for the state rights concept has been seen as slavery and then in the ante-bellum South the place of blacks in that society.
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So how did that work for the blacks in the ante-bellum South?
Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Magazines Not For Liberty 2009
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Even in the ante-bellum South, slaves (non-persons) could get hearings in suits for freedom and other issues.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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In the US, the closest we had to this kind of right-wing was the ante-bellum and the KKK and similar organization.
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In the US, the closest we had to this kind of right-wing was the ante-bellum and the KKK and similar organization.
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Even in the ante-bellum South, slaves (non-persons) could get hearings in suits for freedom and other issues.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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Barrington Moore and other scholars have pointed out the the economy (and society) of the ante-bellum South had more in common with those areas of Europe that experienced feudalism than with the northern states.
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