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Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1890 (review)

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi,... Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770--1890 By Christopher Morris Oxford University Press, 1 99 5 Xix, 258 pp. Cloth $35.00 Reviewed by Ronald L. F. Davis, department of history, California State University, Northridge. He is the author of two books, Good and Faithful 1\abor: The Transitionfrom Slavery to Sharecropping in the Old Natche^ District and The Black Experience in Natche^ Mississippi, IJ20--lS80. To take a frontier place and show how it became something that it was not originally, something "southern," is what Christopher Morris's Becoming Southern purports to do. The place is Warren County, Mississippi, one of the most "southern" places in the nation on the eve of the Civil War. It was home to Jefferson Davis, slave masters, yeoman farmers, riverboat gamblers, thousands of slaves, and the fortress Vicksburg-- the formidable Gibraltar of the old Southwest that with its fall made General Ulysses S. Grant's reputation and doomed the Confederacy. To explain how Warren County emerged from a wilderness to become a society that embraced a soudiern mentality, a southern culture, and a southern style of behavior is no easy accomplishment. Morris goes about this task first by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1890 (review)

Davis, Ronald L. F.
Southern Cultures , Volume 3 (3) – Jan 4, 1997
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Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770--1890 By Christopher Morris Oxford University Press, 1 99 5 Xix, 258 pp. Cloth $35.00 Reviewed by Ronald L. F. Davis, department of history, California State University, Northridge. He is the author of two books, Good and Faithful 1\abor: The Transitionfrom Slavery to Sharecropping in the Old Natche^ District and The Black Experience in Natche^ Mississippi, IJ20--lS80. To take a frontier place and show how it became something that it was not originally, something "southern," is what Christopher Morris's Becoming Southern purports to do. The place is Warren County, Mississippi, one of the most "southern" places in the nation on the eve of the Civil War. It was home to Jefferson Davis, slave masters, yeoman farmers, riverboat gamblers, thousands of slaves, and the fortress Vicksburg-- the formidable Gibraltar of the old Southwest that with its fall made General Ulysses S. Grant's reputation and doomed the Confederacy. To explain how Warren County emerged from a wilderness to become a society that embraced a soudiern mentality, a southern culture, and a southern style of behavior is no easy accomplishment. Morris goes about this task first by

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