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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... planters as vicious entrepreneurs willing to shed African American blood to avoid the red ink of an unprofitable plantation balance sheet . Although Kenneth Stampp entitled his influential history of southern slavery The Peculiar ...
... planters as vicious entrepreneurs willing to shed African American blood to avoid the red ink of an unprofitable plantation balance sheet . Although Kenneth Stampp entitled his influential history of southern slavery The Peculiar ...
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... planters from capitalists in the northern United States and Western Europe.1 On the other hand , scholars who deny that the South was paternalistic have argued that slaveowners did not reject but rather embraced bourgeois domesticity ...
... planters from capitalists in the northern United States and Western Europe.1 On the other hand , scholars who deny that the South was paternalistic have argued that slaveowners did not reject but rather embraced bourgeois domesticity ...
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... planters articulated their familial metaphors for slavery using a vocabulary of bourgeois individualism and domesticity . And since the historiography of southern slavery has cast paternalism as a system of ideas harkening back to a ...
... planters articulated their familial metaphors for slavery using a vocabulary of bourgeois individualism and domesticity . And since the historiography of southern slavery has cast paternalism as a system of ideas harkening back to a ...
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... planters confronted " progressive notions about how to treat blacks ” without surrendering their prerogatives as ... planter ideology and the market must also con- sider how religion impacted the slaveowners ' world view . After all , as ...
... planters confronted " progressive notions about how to treat blacks ” without surrendering their prerogatives as ... planter ideology and the market must also con- sider how religion impacted the slaveowners ' world view . After all , as ...
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... planters were struggling to overcome a dilemma of their own making . Their simultaneous desire for profit and noblesse oblige - a dual- ity that had always caused them distress - laid the foundation for a regional culture that ...
... planters were struggling to overcome a dilemma of their own making . Their simultaneous desire for profit and noblesse oblige - a dual- ity that had always caused them distress - laid the foundation for a regional culture that ...
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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