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DeathandtheAmericanSouth Thisrichcollectionoforiginalessaysilluminatesthecausesandconse- quences of the South’s defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives while concentrating on discrete episodes in theregion’spast,theauthorsexploretopicsfromtheseventeenthcentury to the present, from the death traps that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against emancipation and civil rights to recent cannyeffortstocommemorate–andcapitalizeon–theregion’sdeadly past. Some authors capture their subjects in the most intimate of moments: killing and dying, grieving and remembering, believing and despairing. Others uncover the intentional efforts of Southerners to publiclycommemoratetheirlossesthroughdeathritualsandmemoria- lization campaigns. Together, these poignantly told southern stories revealprofoundtruthsaboutthepastofaregionmarkedbydeathand unable–perhapsunwilling–toescapetheghostsofitshistory. Craig Thompson Friend is professor of history and director of public historyatNorthCarolinaStateUniversity. LorriGloveristheJohnFrancisBannonEndowedChairinthedepart- mentofhistoryatSaintLouisUniversity. CambridgeStudiesontheAmericanSouth SeriesEditors MarkM.Smith,UniversityofSouthCarolina,Columbia DavidMoltke-Hansen,CenterfortheStudyoftheAmericanSouth,University ofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill Interdisciplinaryinitsscopeandintent,thisseriesbuildsuponandextendsCambridge UniversityPress’slong-standingcommitmenttostudiesontheAmericanSouth.The seriesnotonlywillofferthebestnewworkontheSouth’sdistinctiveinstitutional, social,economic,andculturalhistorybutwillalsofeatureworksinanational, comparative,andtransnationalperspective. TitlesintheSeries RobertE.Bonner,MasteringAmerica:SouthernSlaveholdersandtheCrisisof AmericanNationhood RasMichaelBrown,African-AtlanticCulturesandtheSouthCarolinaLowcountry ChristopherMichaelCurtis,Jefferson’sFreeholdersandthePoliticsofOwnershipinthe OldDominion LouisA.FerlegerandJohnD.Metz,CultivatingSuccessintheSouth:FarmHouseholds inPostbellumGeorgia LukeE.Harlow,Religion,Race,andtheMakingofConfederateKentucky, 1830–1880 AriHelo,ThomasJefferson’sEthicsandthePoliticsofHumanProgress:TheMorality ofaSlaveholder SusannaMicheleLee,ClaimingtheUnion:CitizenshipinthePost–CivilWarSouth ScottP.Marler,TheMerchants’Capital:NewOrleansandthePoliticalEconomyofthe Nineteenth-CenturySouth PeterMcCandless,Slavery,Disease,andSufferingintheSouthernLowcountry BartonA.Myers,RebelsagainsttheConfederacy:NorthCarolina’sUnionists JohannaNicolShields,FreedominaSlaveSociety:StoriesfromtheAntebellumSouth BrianSteele,ThomasJeffersonandAmericanNationhood JonathanDanielWells,WomenWritersandJournalistsintheNineteenth-Century South Death and the American South Edited by CRAIG THOMPSON FRIEND NorthCarolinaStateUniversity LORRI GLOVER SaintLouisUniversity 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107084209 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-107-08420-9Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents ListofIllustrations pageix ListofContributors xi Introduction:DeathandtheAmericanSouth 1 CraigThompsonFriendandLorriGlover 1 MutilatedBodies,LivingSpecters:ScalpingsandBeheadingsin theEarlySouth 15 CraigThompsonFriend 2 TheUsableDeath:Evangelicals,Anglicans,andthePoliticsof DyingintheLate-ColonialLowcountry 36 PeterN.Moore 3 When“HistoryBecomesFableInsteadofFact”:TheDeaths andResurrectionsofVirginia’sLeadingRevolutionaries 58 LorriGlover 4 AmericanMourning:Catastrophe,PublicGrief,andthe MakingofCivicIdentityintheEarlyNationalSouth 86 JewelSpangler 5 ToClaimOne’sOwn:DeathandtheBodyintheDailyPolitics ofAntebellumSlavery 110 JamieWarren 6 NativistsandStrangers:YellowFeverandImmigrant MortalityinAntebellumCharleston,SouthCarolina 131 JeffStrickland 7 “CumbereroftheEarth”:SufferingandSuicideamongthe FaithfulintheCivilWarSouth 153 DianeMillerSommerville vii viii Contents 8 The“Translation”ofLundyHarris:InterpretingDeathoutof theConfusionofSexuality,Violence,andReligionintheNew South 181 DonaldG.Mathews 9 “He’sOnlyAway”:CondolenceLiteratureandtheEmergence ofaModernSouth 207 KristineM.McCusker 10 “AMonumenttoJudgeLynch”:RacialViolence,Symbolic Death,andBlackResistanceinJimCrowMississippi 229 JasonMorganWard 11 ReframingtheIndianDead:Removal-EraCherokeeGraves andtheChangingLandscapeofSouthernMemory 250 AndrewDenson Index 275
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