Download or read book The South in Northern Eyes, 1831-1861 written by Howard Russell Floan and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1958 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How accurate was "informed opinion" in the North about conditions in the ante-bellum South? Whittier, Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Bryant, Melville, Whitman and other literate Northerners wrote frequent, influential denunciations of white Southerners. Justified as was their moral attack on the institution of slavery, most of them knew precious little about the region they discusses so authoritatively or the people whom they excoriated.