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Name: Plain Folk of the Old South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
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by Frank Lawrence Owsley; Foreword by Grady McWhiney

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First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes--planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials--firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports--to accurately reconstruct the prewar South's large and significant "yeoman farmer" middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as "snuffing the candle," "driving the nail," and the "gander pull." A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.

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Title Plain Folk of the Old South
Author Frank Lawrence Owsley; Foreword by Grady McWhiney
Binding Paperback
Edition Updated
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge
Date 2008-02-01
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780807133422 / 0807133426
Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
Dimensions 8.53 x 6 x 0.57 in (21.67 x 15.24 x 1.45 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: South
Library of Congress subjects Southern States - History - 1775-1865, Southern States - Social life and customs -
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008271712
Dewey Decimal Code 975.03

About the author

Frank Lawrence Owsley (1890-1956) taught southern history for many years at Vanderbilt University, and later at the University of Alabama. He is the author of State Rights in the Confederacy and King Cotton Diplomacy, coauthor of The United States: From Colony to World Power, and one of the contributors to I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Traditions. John B. Boles is William P. Hobby Professor of History at Rice University and editor of the Journal of Southern History. He is the author of University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute and The South through Time: A History of an American Region, Black Southerners, 1619-1869, as well as numerous other books.

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