A history of the Old South : the emergence of a reluctant nation / Clement Eaton.

The Southerners
The evolution of the plantation
The piedmont society
The rise of a Native aristocracy
The embellishment of life
The movement for independence from the British empire
Through the Cumberland Gap
Ascendancy of the Southern federalists
The great generation
The creoles become Southerners
The war hawks and expansion
The maturity of the plantation
Slave labor
was it profitable?
The nature of the Southern slave system and of the slave
The middle class and the disadvantaged
The hero of the common man
The two party system of the Old South
Calhoun and State' rights
Exuberant imperialism
changing attitudes toward slavery
The Southern way of life
Toward a more diversified economy
Molding the Southern mind
The growing alienation
Establishing a Southern republic.