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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... force.12 Indeed , studies published in the 1990s demonstrate how the questions that once inspired pathbreaking analysis of the Old South now undermine productive debate about the region's fundamental ideolog- ical orientation.13 What we ...
... force.12 Indeed , studies published in the 1990s demonstrate how the questions that once inspired pathbreaking analysis of the Old South now undermine productive debate about the region's fundamental ideolog- ical orientation.13 What we ...
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... force in the following century . That Carter's son and daughter - in - law protested his actions with screams of horror reminded him of mounting expectations that patriarchal authority be tempered by affectionate , paternalistic con ...
... force in the following century . That Carter's son and daughter - in - law protested his actions with screams of horror reminded him of mounting expectations that patriarchal authority be tempered by affectionate , paternalistic con ...
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... forces that ultimately frustrated the ambitions of the many southerners who sought to diminish or to eradicate the planters ' political influence . It is my most sincere desire that no one misinterpret this study of slave- holder ...
... forces that ultimately frustrated the ambitions of the many southerners who sought to diminish or to eradicate the planters ' political influence . It is my most sincere desire that no one misinterpret this study of slave- holder ...
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... force without inter- ference from meddling representatives of church and state . A market for cosmopolitan culture was simultaneously heightening colonial planters ' preoccupation with English standards for gentility and , ironically ...
... force without inter- ference from meddling representatives of church and state . A market for cosmopolitan culture was simultaneously heightening colonial planters ' preoccupation with English standards for gentility and , ironically ...
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... force , the international market fostered a local demographic structure with unsettling implications for white masters . By 1708 , blacks outnumbered whites in South Carolina ; by 1740 , twice as many slaves as free whites inhabited the ...
... force , the international market fostered a local demographic structure with unsettling implications for white masters . By 1708 , blacks outnumbered whites in South Carolina ; by 1740 , twice as many slaves as free whites inhabited the ...
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 |
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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