“The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction, sealed the alliance between Northern and Southern conservatives and ratified the shifting emphasis of Northern policy from the political and missionary to the economic and exploitative….. “Northern capital could not have moved so swiftly through the South had it not been for the collaboration of Southern business elites. The […]
Posts Tagged ‘jackson lears’
Redeemers to Northern capitalists: Come on down!
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged compromise of 1877, jackson lears, lost cause, nc industrialization, raleigh observer, rebirth of a nation on December 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A challenging assignment for Thomas Hart Benton
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american tobacco co, fables of abundance, jackson lears, n w ayer, thomas hart benton, tobacco advertising on November 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Thomas Hart Benton… counterposed the truth of his art against the lies of advertising in an account of his dispute with the American Tobacco Company in 1943. “The company, pioneering what has become a standard business practice, sought to counteract its federal conviction for price-fixing by hiring N.W. Ayer to surround it with ‘jes’ folks’ […]
Once upon a time, there was a N.C. legislature that….
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged jackson lears, nc fusion government, nc legislature, rebirth of a nation on September 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“In certain Southern places, the economic crisis of the 1890s drove Populists and Republicans into each other’s arms…. Fragile biracial coalitions elected ‘fusion’ tickets in Alabama, Georgia, Texas and — most successfully — in North Carolina…. “Between 1894 and 1898, the fusionist legislature required ‘The School History of the Negro Race in the United States’ […]
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