In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Slave South

What made the South the South for nineteenth-century Americans? Was it its geography, its economy, its slavery, its culture, its history, its politics? Or was it the stories that were told about the South-and the people who told them? In a Land of Strangers contends that the idea of a "distinctive" South did not crystallize out of the Civil War or politics; instead, it took shape decades earlier through the everyday observations of thousands of Northern teachers who lived and worked there f...