2010 ALFRED DUPONT CHANDLER JR. LECTURESHIP ON SOUTHERN BUSINESS HISTORY – PROFESSOR JOHN MAJEWSKI OF UC- SANTA BARBARA – SOUTHERN SECESSIONISTS AND THE ECONOMIC VISION OF THE CONFEDERACY. APRIL 22, 2010, 4:30 PM, UNC ALUMNI CENTER – ROYALL ROOM
The 2010 Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. Lectureship on Southern Business History is pleased to have Professor John Majewski of the University of California Santa Barbara presenting this year’s lecture. His talk is entitled, “Southern Secessionists and the Economic Vision of the Confederacy.” Popular opinion often associates the Confederacy with an agrarian economy devoted to states rights and limited government. Professor John Majewski’s research complicates this traditional story. He argues that many southern secessionists viewed political independence as an exhilarating opportunity to build a more modern and more diversified economy. Secessionists, he contends, believed that a strong, activist government could promote more industry and commerce, which would better enable the Confederacy to protect slavery.
Professor John Majewski is chair of the history department at UC Santa Barbara. This talk is based on his most recent book, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
Lecture takes place April 22th, 4:30 pm in the Royall Room at the UNC Alumni Center. Directions are here.