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Letter to the Hon. Langdon Cheves, to the Editors of the Charleston Mercury
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Southern Womanhood and Slavery
Southern Womanhood and Slavery is the first full-length biography of Louisa S. McCord, one of the most intriguing intellectuals in antebellum America. The daughter of South Carolina planter and politician Langdon Cheves, and an essayist in her own right, McCord supported unregulated free trade and the perpetuation of slavery and opposed the advancement of women’s rights. This study examines the origins of her ideas. Leigh Fought constructs an exciting narrative that follows McCord from her childhood as the daughter of a state representative and president of the Bank of the United States through her efforts to accept her position as wife and mother, her career as an author and plantation mi...
Langdon Cheves of South Carolina
Cheves was raised in Charleston. In 1810 he won election to the House of Representatives, succeeding Robert Marion of South Carolina in the 11th Congress (1809-1811). Cheves was a trusted lieutenant of Speaker Henry Clay of Kentucky, with whom he devised the legislative strategy that led the U.S. into war with Great Britain in 1812. Speaker Clay appointed Cheves chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Naval Establishments during the 12th Congress (1811-1813)--positions from which he sought to bolster U.S. military preparedness. When Clay resigned in 1814 to serve on the peace commission to end the war, the House elected Cheves as Speaker for the remainder of the 13th Congress (1813-1815). Cheves opted not to oppose the popular Clay for the Speakership when he returned in 1815--and retired to private life. Cheves later served as head of the Bank of the United States from 1819 to 1822, saving the institution from financial ruin before returning to the affairs of his rice plantation in South Carolina.
Louisa S. McCord
Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles. Over the past decade historians have begun to pay attention to McCord and find her indespensible to understanding American culture. Among Southerners before the Civil War, she is ranked with Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, Sarah Grimke, John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, and Frederick Douglass. This volume collects all of her poetry, drama, and correspondence, her account of Sherman's occupation of Columbia, and a memoir of her father, politician and statesman Langdon Cheves. Its publication, together with the previously published Louisa S. McCord: Poltical and Social Essays, makes available all of Louisa McCords's varied writings.
Bankers' Magazine
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy
Masters of the Big House
William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.
Dictionary of Books, relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
