Masters of Small Worlds

Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country

AvStephanie McCurry

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practised in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the centre of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-01-08
Mått:155 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195117950
Utmärkelser:Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award for 1996! Winner of the Franklin Prize for the Best Book in American Studies, 1995!

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Stephanie McCurry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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"Masters of Small Worlds...is of interest not only for the local matter of South Carolina, but as one test of whether `race, class, and gender' can...make a history and not just a battlecry....McCurry offers an abundance of insight, information and anecdote. She is a gifted historian, engaging large questions."--The Times Literary Supplement

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: A Person with a Price1. The Chattel Principle2. Between the Prices3. Making a World Out of Slaves4. Turning People into Products5. Reading Bodies and Marking Race6. Acts of Sale7. Life in the Shadow of the Slave MarketEpilogue: Southern History and the Slave Trade

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