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Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Date: 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. cloth, dust jacket, xi, 185 pages : illustrations, CONTENTS: Introduction: The stuff of history, A Confederate youth, The making of a racist, The unmaking of a racist, The document, The correspondence, part I, The correspondence, part II, The market In conclusion. "This unique blend of memoir and history interweaves autobiography with the history of the slave trade and the American South"--Provided by publisher. 2016. University of Virginia Press ISBN 0813938872 9780813938875 [CA]

Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, Date: 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. Jacket spine base bumped. 2016 Hard Cover. xi, 185 pp. In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates the midcentury American South of his childhood--in many respects a boy’s paradise, but one stained by Lost Cause revisionism and, worse, by the full brunt of Jim Crow. Through entertainments and "educational" books that belittled African Americans, as well as the living examples of his own family, Dew was indoctrinated in a white supremacy that, at best, was condescendingly paternalistic and, at worst, brutally intolerant. The fear that southern culture, and the "hallowed white male brotherhood," could come undone through the slightest flexibility in the color line gave the Jim Crow mindset its distinctly unyielding quality. Dew recalls his father, in most regards a decent man, becoming livid over a black tradesman daring to use the front, and not the back, door. The second half of the book shows how this former Confederate youth and descendant of Thomas Roderick Dew, one of slavery’s most passionate apologists, went on to ...

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University of Virginia Press, Date: 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2016. University of Virginia Press ISBN 0813938872 9780813938875 [US]

University of Virginia Press, Date: 2016. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2016. University of Virginia Press ISBN 0813938872 9780813938875 [US]

University of Virginia Press. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects. University of Virginia Press ISBN 0813938872 9780813938875 [US]