THE SOUTHERN SOUTH
Book Details + Condition: D. Appleton and Company (New York and London). First Edition, 1910. Hardcover. 417 pages with Advertisements and Index. Illustrated with charts and graphs. Author Albert Bushnell Hart offers a comprehensive study of the Southern United States, exploring the unique characteristics of the South, including its physical geography, climate, agricultural products, and social dynamics. It further delves into the socio-economic populations of Whites and African Americans. Chapters include:
- Materials
- The Southland
- The Poor White
- Immigration
- Southern Leadership and Temperament
- Negro Character
- Negro Life
- The Negro at Work
- Is the Negro Rising?
- Race Separation
- Crime and Its Penalties
- Lynching
- Actual and Comparative Wealth
- Making Cotton and Cotton Hands
- White Education
- Negro Education
- Objections to Education
- Material and Political Remedies
- Moral Remedies
Firm binding; bumped and rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; slight lean to book; bookplate to inside front board; occasional light foxing and age-spotting; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
