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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jonathan Daniel Wells. The Origins of the Southern Middle Class: 1800–1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 321. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50.

In 1847, Daniel Webster traveled to South Carolina to be honored by an organization of transplanted New Englanders. Jonathan Daniel Wells uses this obscure story to introduce his study of an evolving antebellum southern middle class. It is also not widely known that in the 1840s women in Gaffney, South Carolina, formed a literary society and named it for Connecticut author Lydia Sigourney. This is another example of the rich antidotal evidence Wells draws on to develop his thesis that, in the decades before the Civil War, a viable middle class arose in the South, made up of people who recognized commonality with their northern counterparts and interests that separated them from both the southern planter class and the working class.

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