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Unification of a Slave State - Rachel N. Klein - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Unification of a Slave State - Rachel N. Klein - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This book describes the turbulent transformation of South Carolina from a colony rent by sectional conflict into a state dominated by the South's most unified and politically powerful planter leadership. Rachel Klein unravels the sources of conflict and growing unity, showing how a deep commitment to slavery enabled leaders from both low- and backcountry to define the terms of political and ideological compromise. The spread of cotton into the backcountry, often invoked as the reason for South Carolina's political unification, actually concluded a complex struggle for power and legitimacy. Beginning with the Regulator Uprising of the 1760s, Klein demonstrates how backcountry leaders both gained authority among yeoman constituents and assumed a powerful role within state government. By defining slavery as the natural extension of familial inequality, backcountry ministers strengthened the planter class. At the same time, evangelical religion, like the backcountry's dominant political language, expressed yet contained the persisting tensions between planters and yeomen. Klein weaves social, political, and religious history into a formidable account of planter class formation and southern frontier development.

DKK 464.00
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William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker - Bog af Benjamin E. Wise - Paperback

William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker - Bog af Benjamin E. Wise - Paperback

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.

DKK 576.95
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Foul Means - Anthony S. Parent Jr. - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Foul Means - Anthony S. Parent Jr. - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730.

DKK 424.00
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Sugar and Slaves - Richard S. Dunn - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Sugar and Slaves - Richard S. Dunn - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and whites that made these colonies the richest, but in human terms the least successful, in English America."A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.-- Journal of Modern History "A remarkable account of the rise of the planter class in the West Indies. . . . Dunn''s [work] is rich social history, based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary narrative accounts.-- New York Review of Books "A study of major importance. . . . Dunn not only provides the most solid and precise account ever written of the social development of the British West Indies down to 1713, he also challenges some traditional historical cliches.-- American Historical Review

DKK 424.00
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A Social History of the Sea Islands - with Special Reference to St. Helena Island, South Carolina - Guion Griffis Johnson

A Social History of the Sea Islands - with Special Reference to St. Helena Island, South Carolina - Guion Griffis Johnson

The author has drawn on newly discovered manuscripts and the US Treasury archives to present a complete picture of the Sea Islands during the Federal occupation during the Civil War. The book contains accounts of indigo culture, the St. Helena slave market, the planter aristocracy, the slave community, the black as landowner, and the effects of the Civil War. Originally published in 1930.

DKK 234.00
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