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 /

The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. When we examine Jefferson Davis's explanation as to why he was wearing women's c...

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Author / Creator: Greenberg, Kenneth S.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:Project Muse. distributor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:3. print., and 1. paperback print.
Imprint: Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
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