Selected papers from the 7th Citadel Conference on the South held in Charleston, S.C., from April 6 to 8, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clio at climax : apocalypse and the American Civil War / Emory M. Thomas -- A reassessment of the volume of the post-revolutionary foreign slave trade to North America, 1783-1810 / James McMillin -- "Old Miss sho' was good to us ... 'cause she was raisin' us to wuk for her" : widowed planters and paternalism in the Old South / Kirsten E. Wood -- In terror of their slaves : white Southern women's responses to slave insurrections and scares / Patrick H. Breen -- The southernization of Missouri : Kansas, the Civil War, and the politics of identity on the western border / Christopher Phillips -- Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and the national meaning of war / Brian R. Dirk -- The politics of language : the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction / Christopher Waldrep -- "The color of skin was almost forgotten" : Biracialism in the twentieth-century Southern religious experience / Paul Harvey -- "Doing contrary to my raing" : Emma Anderson Dunovant and the Woman Suffrage campaign in South Carolina / James O. Farmer, Jr. -- The shape of the movement to come : Women, religion, Episcopalians, and the interacial movement in 1920s South Carolina / Joan Marie Johnson -- Reconciliation and regionalism : reunion among Southern Methodists and Presbyterians, 1920-1955 / William R. Glass -- State v. William Darnell : the battle over de jure housing segregation in Progressive Era Winston-Salem / Michael E. Daly and John Wertheimer -- Higher education and the civil rights movement : desegregating the University of North Carolina / Peter Wallenstein -- Training for partial citizenship : Black military schools in the age of Jim Crow / Rod Andrew, Jr. --Black, white, and gray : the desegregation of the Citadel, 1963-1973 / Alexander S. Macaulay, Jr. -- Whispering consolation to generations unborn : Black memory in the Era of Jim Crow / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Memorializing the movement : the struggle to build civil rights museums in the South / Glenn T. Eskew -- The ambivalent South / Sheldon Hackney.