Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War by Ritchie Devon Watson

Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War

Ritchie Devon Watson

286 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history
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When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners a...

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