About the Author
Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851-1928) was a Southern historian, writer, and educator. A staunch advocate of the “Lost Cause” mythology of the Old South, she defended slavery and opposed woman suffrage. Among her many works are What the South May Claim; or, Where the South Leads (1916), King Cotton: The True History of Cotton and the Cotton Gin (1922), and The South Must Have Her Rightful Place in History (1923).
