Southern Honor. Ethics and Behavior in the Old South - Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Hailed in "The Washington Post" as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in "The New York Times" as "an important, original book", "Southern Honor" revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, letters, diaries, and newspaper columns, Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examples to illuminate the dynamics of Southern life throughout the antebellum period.