| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post—Civil War South Carolina. By Charles J. Holden. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 164 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-57003-476-1.)

Antebellum southern thinkers denounced the free labor system for promoting a brutal and immoral wage slavery by which capitalists impoverished and exploited workers without assuming responsibility for their welfare. Slavery alone, southerners insisted, ensured economic progress without the social dislocation, political upheaval, and moral confusion that engulfed free society. Confederate defeat made this vision impossible to sustain. Yet the lost cause was not entirely lost. In his study of postbellum southern conservative thought, Charles J. Holden investigates four South Carolina conservatives who greeted the wreckage of their world with an unyielding determination to reinvigorate the conservative tradition.

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