Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837UNC Press Books, 12.10.2005 - 352 Seiten 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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... Southern Studies Program at Emory University . The Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University funded me for a year while I wrote a significant portion of the manuscript . I am also deeply grateful x | Acknowledgments.
... Southern Studies Program at Emory University . The Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University funded me for a year while I wrote a significant portion of the manuscript . I am also deeply grateful x | Acknowledgments.
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... wrote , “ that there were few people so very happy , hearty , and well satisfied with their condition , as the southern negro . " " A brutal master is sometimes punished , and always known , ” he continued , “ and his offences against ...
... wrote , “ that there were few people so very happy , hearty , and well satisfied with their condition , as the southern negro . " " A brutal master is sometimes punished , and always known , ” he continued , “ and his offences against ...
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... wrote Simms in " The Morals of Slavery . " " There he never offends by obtrusiveness ; he oc- cupies his true position , and while he fills it modestly , he is regarded with favor , nay , respect and love , and is treated with kindness ...
... wrote Simms in " The Morals of Slavery . " " There he never offends by obtrusiveness ; he oc- cupies his true position , and while he fills it modestly , he is regarded with favor , nay , respect and love , and is treated with kindness ...
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... wrote Benjamin Martyn in 1741 , " that by gentle usage the negro may be made a trusty servant ; this can- not be depended on . Every man is naturally fond of liberty , and he will struggle for it when he knows his own strength . " " 1 ...
... wrote Benjamin Martyn in 1741 , " that by gentle usage the negro may be made a trusty servant ; this can- not be depended on . Every man is naturally fond of liberty , and he will struggle for it when he knows his own strength . " " 1 ...
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... wrote that " indeed few Masters appear Zealous or even pleased with what the Missionaries try to do for the Good of their slaves , they are more Cruel Some of them of late Dayes than before , they hamstring , maim & unlimb those poor ...
... wrote that " indeed few Masters appear Zealous or even pleased with what the Missionaries try to do for the Good of their slaves , they are more Cruel Some of them of late Dayes than before , they hamstring , maim & unlimb those poor ...
Inhalt
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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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