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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... residents . In many ways , the story of the Deep South can be told in such terms of ex- plosive economic growth and the attendant suffering inflicted by whites on African American slaves . By the 1760s , elite slaveowners in South ...
... residents . In many ways , the story of the Deep South can be told in such terms of ex- plosive economic growth and the attendant suffering inflicted by whites on African American slaves . By the 1760s , elite slaveowners in South ...
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... residents in the Deep South were mystified by those who rejected the potential fruits of international commerce . Localism had be- come an inscrutable economic riddle to a planter elite whose existence rested on a global perspective ...
... residents in the Deep South were mystified by those who rejected the potential fruits of international commerce . Localism had be- come an inscrutable economic riddle to a planter elite whose existence rested on a global perspective ...
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... residents of the Deep South viewed Le Jau's proselytizing about proper interracial relationships as the meddling of an uninvited outside ag- itator . Pointing to the slaveholders ' " Whispers " of disapproval and " Con- duct " against ...
... residents of the Deep South viewed Le Jau's proselytizing about proper interracial relationships as the meddling of an uninvited outside ag- itator . Pointing to the slaveholders ' " Whispers " of disapproval and " Con- duct " against ...
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... resident of the Deep South to make a public justification of slavery — one that presented the same tenets of corporate individualism ar- ticulated by southern proslavery writers over the next 125 years - Garden demonstrated that ...
... resident of the Deep South to make a public justification of slavery — one that presented the same tenets of corporate individualism ar- ticulated by southern proslavery writers over the next 125 years - Garden demonstrated that ...
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... resident of Barbados , that there was " no such thing as being a Christian " in places where " so many wretched Slaves " made life “ a Kind of Hell . " 68 The planters of the Lower South quickly learned that such Christian spiritual ...
... resident of Barbados , that there was " no such thing as being a Christian " in places where " so many wretched Slaves " made life “ a Kind of Hell . " 68 The planters of the Lower South quickly learned that such Christian spiritual ...
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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