Frank Lawrence Owsley
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Frank Lawrence Owsley (January 20, 1890 – October 21, 1956) was an American historian who taught at Vanderbilt University for most of his career, where he specialized in Southern history and was a member of the Southern Agrarians. He is notorious for his essay "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1930) in which he lamented the economic loss of slavery for the defeated Confederacy and of the "half savage blacks" that had been freed. He is also known for his study of Confederate diplomacy based on the idea of "King Cotton" and especially his quantitative social history of the middling "plain people" of the Old South.
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Frank Lawrence Owsley | |
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Born | (1890-01-20)January 20, 1890 Alabama, U.S. |
Died | October 21, 1956(1956-10-21) (aged 66) |
Alma mater | Auburn University University of Chicago |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer(s) | Vanderbilt University University of Alabama |
Spouse | Harriet |
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