Hunting and Fishing in the New South

Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War

AvScott E. Giltner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del 126 i serien The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

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This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post-Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy-escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners-blacks included-since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South's labor system. Scott E.Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment-how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner's thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen's recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801890239

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Scott E. Giltner is an assistant professor of history at Culver-Stockton College.

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Scott Giltner delivers an intriguing and thoughtful survey of sporting cultures and racial identity in the postbellum South... A provocative regional study that highlights the value of approaching the American past from a socio-environmental perspective. -- Karen Jones Reviews in History 2009 Hunting and Fishing provides a new perspective on the social history of the post-Civil War South, and the 'Notes' section alone is worth the price of the book. -- John White North Carolina Historical Review 2009 Intriguing study of rural southern black hunters and upper-class white sportsmen. -- Jeanette Keith Journal of American History 2009 Giltner provides new insight into turn-of-the-century southern race relations. -- Andrea Smalley Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Essential reading. -- Stephen A. West Journal of Southern History

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Introduction: Hunting, Fishing, and Freedom1. "You Can't Starve a Negro": Hunting and Fishing and African Americans' Subsistence in the Post-Emancipation South2. "The Pot-Hunting Son of Ham": White Sportsmen's Objections to African Americans' Hunting and Fishing3. "The Art of Serving Is with Them Innate": African Americans and the Work of Southern Hunting and Fishing4. "With the Due Subordination of Master and Servant Preserved": Race and Sporting Tourism in the Post-Emancipation South5. "When He Should Be between the Plow Handles": Sportsmen, Landowners, Legislators, and the Assault on African Americans' Hunting and FishingConclusion: Contradiction and Continuity in the Southern Sporting FieldAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex