honor and slavery

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Issue:

American History

 

Written by:

Roger P

 

Date added:

October 22, 2013

 

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University

 

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B

 

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2 / 432

 

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Greenberg probes the lieutenant's motivations by explaining what it meant to perceive oneself as dishonored and how such a perception seemed comparable to being treated as a slave. When John Randolph lavished gifts on his friends and enemies as he calmly faced the prospect of death in a duel with Secretary of State Henry Clay, his generosity had a paternalistic meaning echoed by the master-slave relationship and reflected in the pro-slavery argument...
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These acts, together with the way a gentleman chose to lend money, drink with strangers, go hunting, and die, all formed a language of control, a vision of what it meant to live as a courageous free man. In reconstructing the language of honor in the Old South, Greenberg reconstructs the world. Greenberg has written an informative and entertaining book on the importance of honor among men of the Old South...
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