Learn how African Americans responded to emancipation in their quest for fundamental rights; relive the era of Reconstruction, and the bitter conflict between the North's efforts to remake the South and white Southerners' actions to reassert the power they held before the war; and
: Observe how political and legal means were employed across the postwar South to separate the races and maintain white supremacy; study the variety of social restrictions and violence that characterized African American life following Reconstruction; and learn how modern agriculture and industry transformed life in the New South.
Professor Ayers brings to these lectures the same compelling style as a speaker that has made him a nationally recognized co-host of the history podcast BackStory. Throughout the course, he adds layers of revealing context and detail that aid in comprehending the extraordinary saga of the South.
In tracing the complexities of North/South relations, he reveals that Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence vigorously denounced slavery and that the Congress of the new nation both gave substantial concessions to slaveholders and worked to limit slavery's geographical scope.
As the course progresses, you'll explore the vital role of religious faith in Southern culture, learning how evangelical Christianity offered disparate benefits for black and white Southerners and later became a major social force within the New South. And, within the landscape of the New South, you'll follow the process by which Southern musical culture, encompassing genres such as blues, jazz, gospel, and country music, became a globally impactful form of expression.
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, you'll take a richly detailed excursion into the story and the enduring legacy of the South, in a historical inquiry unique in its scope. No book and no other course brings together the development of the slave South, the wartime South, the reconstructed South, and the New South as Professor Ayers does in these enthralling and incisive lectures. In Professor Ayers's words, "We cannot understand the United States if we do not understand the South, which has played such an outsized role in the history of our country."
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