Question

What is the significance of the Henry Grady Sells the New South, 1886 document? And how does it help you understand the “New South?” You can use the questions above to help write your paragraph.

Answer 1

Henry Grady's 1886 speech, "Selling the New South," is a landmark document in the history of the American South. In it, Grady argued that the South should embrace industrialization and modernization in order to move away from its agrarian past and become a more prosperous region. He argued that the South should embrace the new economic opportunities that industrialization offered, and that it should also embrace racial reconciliation and the end of slavery. This speech helped to shape the idea of the "New South," which was a region that embraced industrialization and modernization while also striving for racial equality. Grady's speech helped to create a vision of a new, more prosperous South, and it helped to shape the region's identity in the decades that followed.