An American business journalist, statistician, and protectionist, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1820-1867) was a proslavery propagandist for Southern sectionalism.James D. B. De Bow, who was born in...
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James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (10 July 1820-27 February 1867), statistician and magazinist, is best known today as editor of De Bow's Review, one of the Old South's most widely circulated and influen...
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"De Bow's Review is the greatest remnant of the Old South, the greatest exponent of the spirit that informed its people, the greatest exemplar of the hopes that filled its prophets and its seers." The...
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J. D. B. De Bow is most often remembered as the founder and editor of De Bow's Review, a leading platform for proslavery and pro-Southern opinion in antebellum America. Yet, his magazine was more tha...
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