Dominant themes of southern history
The Southern has emerged as a distinctive place where there is a mix of all people from various ethnic backgrounds who shape the land. From 1800 to 1865, Southern history depicts multiple effects of climate, race folk culture that build its history (Fields, 2016). The warm southern climate enabled them to do agriculture, where people planted some profitable crops like rice and sugarcane. The land received an abundant amount of rainfall which led to plantation slavery. This led to distinguish of the South from other regions of the US. Most of the slaves in the plantations constituted of the Southern population who were blacks.
South had a culture where it had developed its customs, cuisines, and musical styles that made them unique (Fields, 2016). The folk culture was used to shape and express the culture of the American South that made them be isolated from the rest of the world. They also had some spiritual beliefs that they looked upon during the time of crisis.
In the white chronicle time, the racial factor is known to have made the whites to exploit the black people who were living in the area designated to them by the American Confederate State. Therefore, the exploitation involved the blacks in working for the whites is an apparent predicament that they happen to be their slaves, peons, wageworkers, and sharecroppers (Fields, 2016). There was also another effect where there developed a broader social division that was characterized by a variety of legal and illicit system that encompassed forms of bound and independent labor, unwaged, and creative work.
The most crucial part of understanding the Southern history is the racial theme. Considering diversified races that were present in the region then, the life depicted is bound to their interaction. The ever-raising racial difference that involved the whites, the Indians, and the Africans was the leading cause of shaping labor patterns making it hard to understand fully the complexity that came along with working with diversity dynamics.
Reference
Fields, B. (2016). Displacement and Southern History. Journal Of Southern History, 82(1),
7-26. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2016.0071