Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Explains the importance of the concept of honor in Southern society and examines family relationships, courtship, marriage, miscegenation, dueling, and slave insurrections.
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- 1982
- ISBN-13
- 9780195033106
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Southern honor cultureSlaveryAntebellum social customs
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1983)
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(1983)
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