Old South and Sectionalism

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This course is comprehensive look at the Old South as a distinctive region and the sectional controversy between North and South. Within these general topics, more focused topics will include: the establishment of planter elites; the growth of slavery as a labor system and its social and cultural nuances within the Old South context; the growth and ideology of the antislavery and abolitionism communities; and the arguments for and eventual secession.