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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... continued , “ and his offences against law and hu- manity in the treatment of his slaves , are quite . . . often the subject of pub- lic inquiry and prosecution . " For Simms , moreover , the unfree labor system that linked the masters ...
... continued , “ and his offences against law and hu- manity in the treatment of his slaves , are quite . . . often the subject of pub- lic inquiry and prosecution . " For Simms , moreover , the unfree labor system that linked the masters ...
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... continued to suspect that Christianity would undermine their authority.34 Given the Christian perspective on the slaveholders ' ambition for personal riches , their fears had some foundation . Although Protestant theology de- veloped ...
... continued to suspect that Christianity would undermine their authority.34 Given the Christian perspective on the slaveholders ' ambition for personal riches , their fears had some foundation . Although Protestant theology de- veloped ...
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... continued , " we must be lost to all that is generous in our Religion and Nature . " Smith insisted that white English subjects who benefited from " the Distinctions of our Complexion and Station " fulfill " the Duties of Common ...
... continued , " we must be lost to all that is generous in our Religion and Nature . " Smith insisted that white English subjects who benefited from " the Distinctions of our Complexion and Station " fulfill " the Duties of Common ...
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... continued to exert their energies . In 1762 , one of George Whitefield's associates reported from the colony that " religion in these provinces is dreadfully languid ! Now & then one is converted - but our Souls long for thousands ...
... continued to exert their energies . In 1762 , one of George Whitefield's associates reported from the colony that " religion in these provinces is dreadfully languid ! Now & then one is converted - but our Souls long for thousands ...
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Continguts
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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 |
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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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