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Masters, slaves, and the "Mind of the South".(Critical essay)

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From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 20041222
Author:Donaldson, Susan V.

WHENEVER THE PHRASE "THE MIND OF THE SOUTH" CROPS UP, POOR feckless Roony Lee nearly always seems to get trotted out as a prime example of white Southern mindlessness--although he was anything but poor and feckless to the half-envious Henry Adams, who recalls in The Education of Henry Adams the Virginian student's initial popularity and "habit of command" during their Harvard College years. The son of Colonel Robert E. Lee of the Second United States Cavalry, Roony was notable for his handsome demeanor and his singular absence of self-consciousness, not to mention his stupidity. ...

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