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Book Review


Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South. By Timothy James Lockley. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xvi, 276 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3173-6.)
Timothy James Lockley has produced a well-written, soundly researched book designed to map the intentions, practices, and sociopolitical import of pre–Civil War southern participants and institutions in a variety of enterprises targeted at the alleviation of poverty among poor southern whites. Hoping to demonstrate that "there was an identifiable southern mode of benevolence," Lockley traverses broadly the antebellum social welfare landscape with chapters on the roles played by states, female benevolent societies, men's mutual aid societies, individual benefactors, and educational institutions (p. 4). . . .
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