| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War. By Edward E. Baptist. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 392 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2688-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5353-4.)

It may have been ten years ago that my father told me that he had read that historians had finally abandoned Frederick Jackson Turner. At the time, that seemed almost reasonable. In Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982), Bertram Wyatt-Brown described Turner as a historian whose time had passed. The southern frontier, far from engendering any kind of democratic spirit, as Turner proposed, has often been depicted by more recent historians as a place where planters created slave-based plantation economies. Those issues are central to American history. According to the standard story, the southern planters' formula for self-preservation required fresh frontier lands, and that need led the nation into civil war. . . .

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