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Honor, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1989

Honor, Edward L. Ayers

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Southerners of the antebellum era made it clear that they subscribed to an ethic of honor, but they never specified exactly what honor meant. In large part, this was because the meaning of honor depended on its immediate context, on who claimed and who acknowledged it.