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Article: Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the ProSlavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South.
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- December 1, 1997
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Kenneth S. Greenberg's goal in Honor and Slavery is to reconstruct and translate the "language" spoken by men of honor in the Old South. His intention is to provide historians with a tool for understanding the institutions created and sustained by these men and the violent confrontation that undermined their social order. Although nineteenth-century Southerners spoke English just as their countrymen in other parts of the nation did, the meanings attached to their words and gestures were shaped by a code of honor and a system of human slavery that were peculiar to their region. Honor was what distinguished master from slave, and honor functioned as the ideal of white males ...
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Article: Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, ...
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;
January 1, 1997 ;
700+ words
...Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing ... exploration of the multiple facets of southern honor. This is a challenging, well argued ... s insights into the expression of male honor through language and behavior broaden ...
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