Writing in 1910, the Harvard historian Albert Bushnell Hart describes the South as a section apart, shaped by the Civil War and its aftermath. He examines Southern industry, capital and banking, agriculture, schools and politics, and gives most of his attention to the relations between white and Black Southerners. His racial assumptions are those of a Northern scholar of 1910, and the book should be read as a period document.
A revealing snapshot of how informed Northern opinion saw the Jim Crow South. Download the free EPUB.