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These works taken together provide the foundation upon which this work was
conceived and pursued. Like Fuller’s work, this study takes a singular perspective, with
the focus being a particular community rather than personality—Edgefield County, South
Carolina. Also like Fuller, this work attempts to make broader conclusions regarding
Southern culture at large, but the focus remains on the particular subject and its unique
qualities. The aspects of social history in this work are drawn directly from both Ownby
and Heyrman’s works, focusing on the cultural exchange between Southern concepts of
honor and evangelical religion.
Though these three works provide the foundation, a multitude of other works
which addressed the issues at the heart of this study deserve mention. Representative of
the notion of Southern honor as it has been understood historically is Bertram Wyatt-
Brown’s works, specifically Southern Honor and The Shaping of Southern Culture.
Especially influential were Wyatt-Brown’s findings regarding aspects of honor which
were given to manipulation and incorporation by evangelical religion. 9
Southern religious history also contributed substantially to this work and its focus.
In addition to the aforementioned work by Christine Heyrman, such stalwarts in the field
9 Bertram Wyatt-Bro wn, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 88-114, 350-361; Other works that
follo w and in some instances even predate Wyatt-Bro wn were also influential in the
understanding of the concept of Southern honor: Bertram-Wyatt Brown, The Shaping
of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s (Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 2001); Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., Violence and
Culture in the Antebellum South (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979); Kenneth
S. Greenberg, Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985); Greenberg, Honor and
Slavery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996); Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of
Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2001).
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