The southern front Book

	Preface
	In Lieu of an Introduction: Personal Reflections
1	Marxism, Christianity, and Bias in the Study of Southern Slave Society	3
2	Hans Rosenberg at Brooklyn College: A Communist Student's Recollections of the Classroom as War Zone	15
	Representative Carolinians
3	James Johnston Pettigrew	25
4	James Henley Thornwell	31
5	Thomas B. Chaplin	42
	Southern Slave Society
6	The Culture of the Old South	51
7	Proslavery in Transatlantic Conservative Thought	79
8	Higher Education in the Defense of Slave Society	92
9	The Poet as Social Critic	107
10	The Slaveholders' Contribution to the American Constitution	114
	Religion
11	Christendom under Siege	131
12	Religious Foundations of the Constitution	142
13	Abolitionism's Black Prophets	153
14	The Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Political Implications	157
15	Does God Matter?	192
	Culture and Politics
16	Herbert Aptheker	201
17	Black Studies: Academic Discipline and Political Struggle	218
18	Eugene Rivers's Challenge: A Response	230
19	John Shelton Reed	243
20	The Voice of Southern Conservatism	247
21	Southern Conservatism at the Political Crossroads	261
22	The Southern Tradition and the Black Experience	278
	Epilogue
23	The Question	289
	Bibliographical Notes	303
	Index	309