Air Date: 042508
Subject: The Origins of Southern White Identity in the Slave Holding South
Book: The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir’s Civil War (New Narratives in American History)
Guest: Professor William L. Barney
Summary: Professor William L. Barney discusses his new book The Making of a Confederate, about a man whose family owns many slaves.
Brett’s Summary: Walter Lenoir was born into a prominent slave holding family in North Carolina. Lenoir had intended to free his slaves and move to Minnesota. Then the Civil War broke out. Lenoir fully supported the Confederacy from that point forward, the only one of the four Lenoir brothers to fully commit to the Confederate cause. After the war he embraced the Lost Cause. and “was a die hard Confederate until the day he died.”
Civil War Talk Radio airs most Fridays at 12 PM Pacific on World Talk Radio Studio A. Host Gerry Prokopowicz, the History Chair at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, interviews a guest each week and discusses their interest in the Civil War. Most interviews center around a book or books if the guest is an author. Other guests over the years have included public Historians such as park rangers and museum curators,wargamers, bloggers, and even a member of an American Civil War Round Table located in London, England.
In this series of blog entries, I will be posting air dates, subjects, and guests, and if I have time, I’ll provide a brief summary of the program. You can find all of the past episodes I’ve entered into the blog by clicking on the Civil War Talk Radio category. Each program should appear either on or near the date it was first broadcast.
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