Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837UNC Press Books, 12 d’oct. 2005 - 352 pàgines In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning culture that cast the southern planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward--even as slaveholders were brutally exploiting their slaves for maximum fiscal gain. Domesticating Slavery offers a surprising answer to the long-standing question about slaveholders' relationship with the proliferating capitalistic markets of early-nineteenth-century America. Whereas previous scholars have depicted southern planters either as efficient businessmen who embraced market economics or as paternalists whose ideals placed them at odds with the industrializing capitalist society in the North, Young instead demonstrates how capitalism and paternalism acted together in unexpected ways to shape slaveholders' identity as a ruling elite. Beginning with slaveowners' responses to British imperialism in the colonial period and ending with the sectional crises of the 1830s, he traces the rise of a self-consciously southern master class in the Deep South and the attendant growth of political tensions that would eventually shatter the union. |
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... concerns , and my complaints . His own scholarship on slavery has provided me with a model of careful research and eloquent expression . He is the finest teacher I have known , and I am fortunate to be able to count myself among his ...
... concerns , and my complaints . His own scholarship on slavery has provided me with a model of careful research and eloquent expression . He is the finest teacher I have known , and I am fortunate to be able to count myself among his ...
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... concerns per- meating England and the northern United States during this period . In- deed , only through their extensive participation in a transatlantic intellec- tual community could the southern slaveowners develop the system of ...
... concerns per- meating England and the northern United States during this period . In- deed , only through their extensive participation in a transatlantic intellec- tual community could the southern slaveowners develop the system of ...
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... concerns about individual welfare that would eventually become the hallmark of modern , bourgeois society.20 Indeed , to make sense of the slaveowners ' complicated relationship with ro- manticized images of home that were becoming more ...
... concerns about individual welfare that would eventually become the hallmark of modern , bourgeois society.20 Indeed , to make sense of the slaveowners ' complicated relationship with ro- manticized images of home that were becoming more ...
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... concerned them- selves with the question of the slave's happiness and potential for personal development . A hierarchy was moral only insofar as it provided subordinate members of society with the opportunity to make the most of their ...
... concerned them- selves with the question of the slave's happiness and potential for personal development . A hierarchy was moral only insofar as it provided subordinate members of society with the opportunity to make the most of their ...
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... concerned in that Insurrection who were not yet taken . ” 17 One year later , South Carolina governor James Glen complained to Parliament about the colonists ' most " dangerous Enemies [ , ] their own Negroes , who are ready to revolt ...
... concerned in that Insurrection who were not yet taken . ” 17 One year later , South Carolina governor James Glen complained to Parliament about the colonists ' most " dangerous Enemies [ , ] their own Negroes , who are ready to revolt ...
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An Unhappy Breach Slaveholder Ideology in the Age of Revolution 17701786 | 57 |
Building a Nation Safe for Human Bondage Slaveholders in the Early Republic 17871800 | 91 |
One in Christ The Genesis of a Southern Slaveholding Culture 18001815 | 123 |
A Storm Portending The Politics of the Peculiar Deep South 18161829 | 161 |
CHAPTER SIX The Tyranny of the Majority Slaveholder Identity and Democratic Politics in the 1830s | 193 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 327 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 Jeffrey Robert Young Previsualització limitada - 1999 |
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South ..., Volum 2 Jeffrey Robert Young Visualització de fragments - 1999 |
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 Jeffrey Robert Young Previsualització no disponible - 1999 |
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