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Historical dictionary of the Old South

An encyclopedia of the pre-Civil War South, emphasizing how the section influenced the colonial and national history of the United States. The dictionary section treats important persons, legislation, political issues, and the South's peculiar institu.

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  • "An encyclopedia of the pre-Civil War South, emphasizing how the section influenced the colonial and national history of the United States. The dictionary section treats important persons, legislation, political issues, and the South's peculiar institu."@en
  • "Being considerably different from other regions of the country, most notably regarding its fervent practice of slavery, the land South of the Mason-Dixon line, because of slavery, enjoyed an exceptional prominence in politics, and after the invention of the cotton gin, a high degree of prosperity. However, also because of slavery, it was alienated from the rest of the nation, attempted to secede from the union, and was forced back in only after it lost the Civil War. Numerous cross-referenced entries onprominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Cal."@en

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  • "Lexikon"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"
  • "Wörterbuch"
  • "Dictionaries"@en
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  • "Historical dictionary of the old South"
  • "Historical dictionary of the Old South"@en
  • "Historical dictionary of the Old South"
  • "Historical Dictionary of the Old South"@en

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