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Memory’s Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910


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dc.contributor.advisorKennington, Kelly
dc.contributor.authorPettus, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T19:30:55Z
dc.date.available2024-04-29T19:30:55Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-29
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.auburn.edu//handle/10415/9232
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation focuses on elite ex-Confederates who relocated to New York City after the Civil War, arguing that they demonstrate the importance of post-war migrations to the spread of the Lost Cause. Industrialization and urban mass culture fundamentally changed late-nineteenth century New York’s social and political landscape, and ex-Confederate migrants were necessarily sensitive to these trends. As native southerners who became New Yorkers, these migrants helped author a variant of the Lost Cause “memory” that portrayed the Old South as an anti-modern Eden led by planter aristocrats. This interpretation successfully addressed the concerns of middle class and elite white New Yorkers while also enhancing ex-Confederates’ social status. White southern migrants to New York City are a prime example of the importance of post-war movement in the formation of the Lost Cause. They show that the creation of the Lost Cause was not geographically restricted and help to explain how a northern public who had once fought to free enslaved Americans ultimately came to support white supremacy and Jim Crow rule in the South.en_US
dc.rightsEMBARGO_GLOBALen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titleMemory’s Redoubt: Ex-Confederates in New York City, 1865-1910en_US
dc.typePhD Dissertationen_US
dc.embargo.lengthMONTHS_WITHHELD:60en_US
dc.embargo.statusEMBARGOEDen_US
dc.embargo.enddate2029-04-29en_US
dc.contributor.committeeDomby, Adam
dc.contributor.committeeBrooks, Jennifer
dc.contributor.committeeSippial, Tiffany

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