Article: Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938.(Book Review)

Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938. By Monica Maria Tetzlaff. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 340. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-453-2.)

Cultivating a New South tells the story of Abbie Holmes Christensen, a "hybrid southerner," and her role in shaping the New South (p. xvi). An enthusiastic reformer, Christensen's life spanned the hopeful, heady days of the Port Royal experiment and the bleak, dark years of Jim Crow. In addition to recovering the story of a fascinating Yankee woman in the New South, the author shows how Christensen's life "illuminates the possibilities of ...

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