Feb. 17--"Purging This Land WIth Blood" I: The Invention of the South

1. Slavery as an "American" Institution
   1. South--The US as a Slave Power
   2. The North--Collaboration
      1. White Northern Racism
      2. Slavery as Price of Union
      3. Abolitionism as "Unpatriotic"
2. Slavery as an "UnAmerican" Institution
   1. A Threat to White Liberty
   2. A Drag on "Progress"
3. The Invention of the South--Separate and "UnAmerican"
   1. Slavery as a "Backward" Institution
   2. The South as a "Feudal" Society
      1. Negative Stereotype--A Piece of European Oppression in America
      2. Positive Stereotype--A Shelter From the "Rat Race"--The Plantation Novel (e.g. Swallow Barn)
   3. Proslavery Thought--George Fitzhugh Declares "Free Society" A Failure (Sociology for the South (1854); Cannibals All! (1857))
   4. The South as "America's" "Evil Twin"