1. GLENN CROTHERS is assistant professor of history at Indiana University Southeast. This article is based upon his dissertation which he is currently revising for publication.
2. Agricultural History, Vol. no. 75, Issue no. 2, pages 135-167. ISSN 0002-1482 c2001 by Agricultural History Society. All rights reserved. Send requests for permission to reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press, 2000 Center St., Ste. 303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223.
3. 1 "Democraticus," Alexandria Expositor, 28March 1803.
4. 2 This portrait of the South is drawn from numerous sources, including Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 41-42, 175-98, 327-28; Eugene Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Old South, 2nd ed. (Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1989), 47-61, 85-105, 124-53; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capitalism: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 90-135, 249-64; Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (New York: Vintage Books, 1964), 97-109, 419-30; Carl Bridenbaugh, The Colonial Craftsman (New York: New York University Press, 1950), 5-32, 120-23, 161-63; and Richard D. Brown, Modernization:The Transformation of American Life, 1600-1865 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976), 62-67, 122-58.