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25 - Peace and Dissent in the South

from Part IV - Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
David Brown
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

Georgia Lee Tatum explained that she was not a “Republican Yankee” when she sent the manuscript of Disloyalty in the Confederacy (1934) to the University of North Carolina Press. To the contrary, her Missouri grandparents came from Virginian roots, were slaveholders, and had supported the Confederacy. Tatum was acutely aware that her topic of Southern dissent was highly controversial, if not taboo, in the Jim Crow South. The press shared her concern and required a $500 subsidy before publication. Nonetheless, Tatum’s important monograph contributed to a revisionist historiography that stressed internal opposition toward the Confederacy, strongest among those who did not own slaves, which challenged the dominant Lost Cause myth of Southern white unity.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 521 - 544
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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