Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.
Dr. Keith M. Finley, an associate professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University, outlined the themes in his most recent book during an Aug. 2 talk at the parish library in Livingston.
LSU Press published his book, “From Slavery to Segregation: Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American South,” last year. He also is the author of “Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965.”…