Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837UNC Press Books, 1999 - 336 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, |
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... slavery provided the foundation for a stable and moral society . Spurning Martineau's charge that southern masters routinely abused their slaves , Simms presented slavery as a humane institution . " We have been apt to think and say ...
... slavery provided the foundation for a stable and moral society . Spurning Martineau's charge that southern masters routinely abused their slaves , Simms presented slavery as a humane institution . " We have been apt to think and say ...
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... slavery proceeded from the same domestic standards that under- pinned middle - class family life in the North . However much a southern ideologue such as Simms denounced the principle of universal " equality insisted upon by the ...
... slavery proceeded from the same domestic standards that under- pinned middle - class family life in the North . However much a southern ideologue such as Simms denounced the principle of universal " equality insisted upon by the ...
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... slaves , he claimed , who were cognizant that bondage served " their own true interests . " For those eager to defend plantation slavery , such imagery provided a powerful counterpoint to stock antislavery images of slave families ...
... slaves , he claimed , who were cognizant that bondage served " their own true interests . " For those eager to defend plantation slavery , such imagery provided a powerful counterpoint to stock antislavery images of slave families ...
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... slavery and linking them to their regional political stance , I do not mean to suggest that their perspec- tive should speak for their slaves and for the poorer white southerners , who both consistently struggled against the elite ...
... slavery and linking them to their regional political stance , I do not mean to suggest that their perspec- tive should speak for their slaves and for the poorer white southerners , who both consistently struggled against the elite ...
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... slavery . The slaveholders aspired to chivalry , as did Cervantes's Don Quixote , a literary character whom they knew well and even mentioned when they discussed the question of slavery . Like the nineteenth - century planters , Quixote ...
... slavery . The slaveholders aspired to chivalry , as did Cervantes's Don Quixote , a literary character whom they knew well and even mentioned when they discussed the question of slavery . Like the nineteenth - century planters , Quixote ...
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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 Jeffrey Robert Young Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 Jeffrey Robert Young Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
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African Americans Alice Izard Anglican antebellum antislavery April asserted August authority backcountry Baptist bondservants BPRO-SC British Calhoun campaign Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charleston Christian Christopher Gadsden church colonial colonists corporate individualism culture December Deep South domestic economy elite emancipation England English evangelical example fears February Gabriel Manigault Gadsden Georgia governor Habersham Henry Laurens Hugh Swinton Legaré human bondage humanitarian ibid ideal ideology imperial insurrection Izard to Margaret Jackson James Habersham January Jefferson Laurens to John Legaré liberty lowcountry Manigault Family Papers March Margaret Izard Manigault master-slave relationship masters minister moral Negroes North northern November nullifiers October organic owners Pierce Butler political proslavery Ralph Izard Ralph Izard Papers reformers religion religious residents Revolution Richard Furman Rutledge September Simms slaveholders slaveowners slavery Smith social society South Carolina southern slaveowners Thomas Thomas Pinckney tion transatlantic unfree labor unionists white southerners Whitefield William Bull women wrote
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