Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Prologue. The Symbolism of National Unity: The New England Society of Charleston; Introduction; PART ONE: Cradle of the Southern Middle Class: Cultural Connections between the Antebellum North and South; PART TWO: The Making of the Southern Middle Class; PART THREE: The American Middle Classes and the Crisis of the Union; Conclusion. The New South and the Triumph of the Southern Middle Class; Epilogue. The New England Society and the New South Creed; Appendix. Commercial and Professional Occupations Based on the 1850 and 1860 U.S. Census Categories; Notes.