A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution
Volume 42 of the
Chronicles of America Series
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Allen Johnson, Editor
Assistant Editors
Gerhard R. Lomer
Charles W. Jefferys
Textbook Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1919
ii Copyright, 1919
by Yale University Press
| Chapter | Chapter Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| I. | The Background | 1 |
| II. | The Confederate Soldier Takes Charge | 9 |
| III. | The Revolt of the Common Man | 31 |
| IV. | The Farmer and the Land | 60 |
| V. | Industrial Development | 86 |
| VI. | Labor Conditions | 106 |
| VII. | The Problem of Black and White | 129 |
| VIII. | Educational Progress | 157 |
| IX. | The South of Today | 191 |
| The Repudiation of State Debts | 227 | |
| Bibliographical Note | 235 | |
| Index | 243 |
The Background
The South of today is not the South of 1860 or even of 1865. There is a New South, though not perhaps in the sense usually understood, for no expression has been more often misused in superficial discussion. Men have written as if the phrase indicated a new land and a new civilization, utterly unlike anything that had existed before and involving a sharp break with the history and the traditions of the past. Nothing could be more untrue. Peoples do not in one generation or in two rid themselves entirely of characteristics which have been developing for centuries.
There is a New South, but it is a logical development from the OldSouth. The civilization of the South today has not been imposed fromwithout 2 but has been an evolution from within, though inf