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A 5 page review of the book by Kenneth S. Greenberg. This paper highlights the structure and content of this ground breaking book on honor in the Old South. No additional sources are listed.
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ground breaking book "Honor and Slavery" author Kenneth S. Greenberg provides a captivating look at the honor code that was in place in the South before the Civil War and
the language that was used as the infrastructure to that honor code. Simple things like phrases and gestures combined with behavior to underpin what was considered honorable and respectable
in the old South and what was not. While Greenbergs book is peripherally about slavery, it is not about the specifics of chattel slavery but is instead more focused
on those that owned the slaves, the slave masters. Despite the entertainment value of such real-life situations such as that that unfolded toward the end of the Civil War when
Jefferson Davis dressed as a woman in an attempt to avoid discovery by Northern troops, this book is trying to deliver a very serious message. Those that employed the
type of behavior Greenberg outlines were hardly clowns. Indeed, they were some of the most respected men of the old South.
Arranged in only five chapters and only some 192 pages long, Greenbergs book might easily fall under the radar as being relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the
Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily matched in other works on the period. In
Chapter 1 of "Honor and slavery", Greenberg covers some quite interesting topics. Titled "The Nose, the Lie, and the Duel", this chapter, covers three topics that might appear to
verge on the brink of comedy to the uninformed reader. In reality these three topics were central to the idea of Southern honor.
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