Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-242) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The first duties of a southern boy -- Raising "self willed" sons -- The educational aspirations of southern families -- Creating southern schools for southern sons -- The (mis)behaviors of southern collegians -- The southern code of gentlemanly conduct -- Acting the part of a gentleman -- Supervising suitors -- Winning a wife -- Professions and the "circle about every man" -- Slaveholding and the destiny of the Republic's southern sons -- Epilogue.
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