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Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)

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During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon throughout the war, fostering hatred and resistance some of the people of the Confederacy.
Drawing from speeches, cartoons, editorials, letters, and diaries, Damn Yankees! examines common themes in southern excoriation of the enemy. In sharp contrast to the presumed southern ideals of chivalry and honor, Confederates claimed that Yankees were rootless vagabonds who placed profit ahead of fidelity to non secular and social traditions. Pervasive criticism of northerners created a framework for figuring out their behavior throughout the war. When the Confederacy prevailed at the field of battle, it confirmed the Yankees’ reputed physical and moral weakness. When the Yankees achieved military success, reports of depravity against vanquished foes abounded, stiffening the unravel of Confederate soldiers and civilians alike to give protection to their place of origin and the sanctity in their women from Union degeneracy.
From award-winning Civil War historian George C. Rable, Damn Yankees! is the first comprehensive study of anti-Union speech and writing, the ways these words shaped perceptions of and events within the war, and the rhetoric’s enduring legacy within the South after the conflict had ended.

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