Historians born during and after the Civil Rights movement have struggled to take the proslav-ery and pro-secession arguments of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century South seriously. They generally tend to lump the two theories together as components of one ideology and then attempt to write it out of the political norms of American life. In this groundbreaking study, Vanderford isolates the different ideological strands in southern political thought of this era and works to understand these ideas in the context of their time.
St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Founding Father, professor,...