Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original map. See 42257-h.htm or 42257-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42257/42257-h/42257-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42257/42257-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/southernsouth00hart THE SOUTHERN SOUTH by ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of History, Harvard University New York and London D. Appleton and Company 1910 Copyright, 1910, by D. Appleton and Company Published April, 1910 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 I.--MATERIALS 7 II.--THE SOUTHLAND 20 III.--THE POOR WHITE 30 IV.--IMMIGRATION 48 V.--SOUTHERN LEADERSHIP 59 VI.--SOUTHERN TEMPERAMENT 66 VII.--ATTITUDE TOWARD HISTORY 80 VIII.--NEGRO CHARACTER 91 IX.--NEGRO LIFE 106 X.--THE NEGRO AT WORK 120 XI.--IS THE NEGRO RISING? 132 XII.--RACE ASSOCIATION 149 XIII.--RACE SEPARATION 166 XIV.--CRIME AND ITS PENALTIES 181 XV.--LYNCHING 205 XVI.--ACTUAL WEALTH 218 XVII.--COMPARATIVE WEALTH 231 XVIII.--MAKING COTTON 250 XIX.--COTTON HANDS 261 XX.--PEONAGE 278 XXI.--WHITE EDUCATION 288 XXII.--NEGRO EDUCATION 308 XXIII.--OBJECTIONS TO EDUCATION 323 XXIV.--POSTULATES OF THE PROBLEM 338 XXV.--THE WRONG WAY OUT 347 XXVI.--MATERIAL AND POLITICAL REMEDIES 367 XXVII.--MORAL REMEDIES 378 MAP AND TABLES 395 INDEX 419 THE SOUTHERN SOUTH INTRODUCTION