notes from the lecture for extra credit on screen: the old south reseted everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new south presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement-a social system compact and closely knitted, less plendid on the surface, but stronger at the core-a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace-and a diversified industry that meets the complex need of this complex age. --Henry Grady, To the New England Club in New York City, 1886 how old is the new south: henry grady is said to be the father of the new south the south needs to change after defeat in the civil war less dependent on black labor, cotton, more urban centers and industry grady also the editor of atl constitution (large newspaper) created the new south at the expense of the old south two major books in the subject and some papers by JDB DeBow JDBD lost both parents around 16, fails at being a whole bunch of different things his failures turned out to be positives in the end had to make his own way 1840: takes classes for 50 a year at college of charleston graduates valedictorian studies law books for 6 weeks/months and passes the bar elected as a rep from charleston to a council in memphis, contact with Calhoun 1846 moves to new orleans and starts writing "the commercial review" important in southern history gets ideas from gobs of southerners how to start cities and towns and keep them going, including schools and shops one of the original professors at tulane, of economics 1846-1860 publishes commercial review fervent nationalist issue of slavery taints his mind, fear of losing it, leads to irrational ramblings begins agitating for the civil war gets stuck selling cotton bonds had to keep moving to avoid union troops after civil war, realizes it was a mistake, pushes for acceptance of blacks and new schools relizes south will fall if they don't get back into american society dies in NJ 1867, ideas in last two years of life focused on urbanization and industrialization of the south in 1860, if the south was to become its own nation, it would be 5th most industrialized in the world on to other things partial subscription lists from before the war, kvach was able to pull 1500 names used those to pull census records built a database of info about all these people looked at how many lived in the city and were wealthy argument was how old is the new south point was that the new south wasn't really new was looking through an old issue of the atl const, found an article "how the south leads" said JDBD was right kvach will be getting it published at some point