RT Article
T1 The Church and the Social Order in the Old South as Interpreted by James H. Thornwell
JF Church history
VO 7
IS 2
SP 115
OP 124
A1 Smith, H. Shelton 1893-
LA English
YR 1938
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1647141206
AB The last generation of the ante-bellum South devoted its best thought to the integration of a plantation culture whose economic base was chattel slavery. Every aspect of its civilization had to make its peace with slavery or be rejected. Long before the guns fired on Fort Sumpter, southern civilization had wrought out an ideology that was as dogmatic as Marxism has ever dared to be. Those who rejected this ideology were promptly silenced or ushered into a cooler climate. The liberalism of an older revolutionary South had long ago been smothered in the atmosphere of cultural fascism.