Old South

"J. William Harris' The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture brings together an impressive array of diverse social and cultural history of the pre-Civil war South as written by some of the most gifted scholars among the current generation of southern historians. It is broadly representative of much of the best work done over the past fifteen years. It successfully defines the cutting edge of southern social and cultural history for all who care to know."— Lacy Ford, author of A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction"With essays about plantation owners and slaves, labor and property, and many forms of politics, this collection presents the easiest way to encounter the most exciting recent scholarship on the antebellum South."— Ted Ownby, author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998"In this revised collection of essays, J. William Harris has provided teachers of southern history with an invaluable teaching tool that incorporates the newest and most exciting approaches to the social and cultural history of the Old South such as gender relations and political culture."— Mitchell Snay, author of Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction 'This gives a really good platform for dissertation reserach and, in my opinion, is an excellent read in its own right' – Richard Toley, History Teaching Review

• Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The dilemma, 2 Slavery and plantation capitalism in Louisiana’s sugar country, 3 Ideology and death on a Savannah River rice plantation, 1833–1867: paternalism amidst “A Good Supply Of Disease And Pain”, 4 Old South time in comparative perspective, 5 Slavery, freedom, and social claims to property among African Americans in Liberty County, Georgia, 1850–1880, 6 The pleasures of resistance: enslaved women and body politics in the Plantation South, 1830–1861, 7 The management of negroes, 8 The slave trader, the white slave, and the politics of racial determination in the 1850s, 9 Tippecanoe and the ladies, too: white women and party politics in antebellum Virginia, 10 The sex of a human being, 11 To harden a lady’s hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia, 12 Law, domestic violence, and the limits of patriarchal authority in the antebellum South, Index