Origins of Southern Radicalism
The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860
Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
Reviews and Awards
Winner of the 1989 Francis B. Simkins Award of the Southern Historical Association
"Unquestionably the finest book on an antebellum southern state since J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society....His major contribution...is not to explain uniqueness but rather to portray convincingly a state sharing much with the other states of the cotton South....In sum, Lacy K. Ford has written a major book."--Journal of Southern History
"Excellent....A major contribution to the history of South Carolina."--South Carolina Historical Magazine
"An important book....A carefully researched, well-written analysis."--Civil War History
"Both undergraduate and graduate readers will benefit from this revealing look at the Old South's bellwether state."--CHOICE
"This is a superb book. It carefully situates republican ideology in its social, economic, and political context and skillfully portrays interrelationships between ideas and social reality."--Georgia Historical Quarterly