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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. By Douglas Ambrose. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xvi, 226 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8071-2080-4.)

One of the reasons Douglas Ambrose offers for his interest in Henry Hughes is his subject's location in Mississippi. Southern intellectual history, he argues, needs to consider places other than Charleston and figures other than George Frederick Holmes. Yet Hughes is a difficult subject for study. In the absence of personal papers (which were destroyed), all one has to go on is Hughes's diary (1848-1853) and his publications, which appeared between 1854 and 1860. Ambrose has made the most of what is available, outlining Hughes's background and early years before turning the bulk of his attention to Hughes's major work, Treatise on Sociology: Theoretical and Practical (1854). The overall result, perhaps inevitably, is something of an intellectual diptych that juxtaposes, rather than brings together, the private and the public worlds of Henry Hughes, one of the antebellum South's most original, if little-known, thinkers. . . .

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