Deep South
The term Deep South (German: "Deep South") refers to the southeastern part of the southern states of the United States .
The term is defined inconsistently. Mostly it is taken broadly and refers to the entire south of the southern states, especially the area of today's states of South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Mississippi and Louisiana . In the period before the Civil War , this region was characterized by a flourishing plantation economy based on slavery .
Some American historians - e.g. B. Ira Berlin - but define the term more narrowly and only refer to the western part of this region as Deep South . H. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and occasionally Arkansas and Texas . The area of the later states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida is summarized in Berlin under the collective name Lower South .
"Deep South" is also the title of the first book in the "Louisiana Trilogy" by Gwen Bristow .
See also
literature
- Paul Theroux : Deep in the south. Travels through another America (Original: Deep South) Translated from American English by Reiner Pfleiderer, Franka Reinhart and Sigrid Schmid. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-50376-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ student. britica.com ( memento of July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Ira Berlin: Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves , Cambridge, London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-01061-2