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English
Description
This classic study of antebellum Southern society demonstrates how slavery was the bedrock of the region's social order and cultural identity.
In The Political Economy of Slavery, Eugene Genovese argues that slavery gave the South a distinct class structure, political community, economy, ideology, and a set of psychological patterns. As a result, the South grew away from the rest of the nation and became increasingly unstable during the nineteenth...
3) A Southern prophecy: the prosperity of the South dependent upon the elevation of the Negro (1889)
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Author
Series
Louisiana paperbacks ; L9
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding widows between the American Revolution and the Civil War developed their own version of mastery.Because...
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Publisher
Raised Voice Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did five generations of African American women before her, beginning with a slave, her oldest known ancestor. In High Cotton, Johnson explores the social and economic consequences of her lineage, drawing on pivotal moments from her own experience to illuminate the lived reality of a daughter of the Deep South"--Back cover.