undergraduates revised the code, dropping the duels, and set up a system whereby fellow students would dictate punishment when misconduct violated college rules or the code of honor. By claiming such control over their college environment, students reshaped the honor code and bridged the awkward gap between dependence and independent adulthood. So many talented people were being killed that anti-dueling associations were organized which challenged the honor code. Old South Day Since 1976, the city of Ochlocknee, Georgia has celebrated 'Old South Day' in November each year. See also American gentry History of the Southern United States Solid South South Atlantic States References Further reading Abernethy, Thomas Perkins The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828 (1922) online free Doddington, David. " "Old Fellows": Age, Identity, and Solidarity in Slave Communities of the Antebellum South." Journal of global slavery 3.3 (2018): 286-312. online Forman, Henry Chandlee. The Architecture Of The Old South The Medieval Style 1585-1850 (1948) online free Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988) online Harris, J. William. The Making of the American South: a Short History, 1500-1877 (2008). Hyde, Samuel C. Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South (2004). Jabour, Anya. Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South (2007) online Kaye, Anthony E. Joining Places: slave neighborhoods in the Old South (U of North Carolina Press, 2007). online McMillen, Sally G. Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South (2002) online Merritt, Keri Leigh. Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (2017) Musher, Sharon Ann. "Contesting "The Way the Almighty Wants It": Crafting Memories of Ex-Slaves in the Slave Narrative Collection." American Quarterly 53.1 (2001): 1-31. online Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. Life And Labor In The Old South (1929) online free Smith, John David. An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Smith, Mark M. The Old South (Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001). Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. Old South The Founding Of American Civilazation (1942) online free Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Honor and Violence in the Old South (1986) online, an abridged version of his famous book, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982) External links Documenting the American South. A digital publishing initiative that provides numerous documents and information about the South of the United States before and after the American Civil War. Jekyll Island Club -