Description |
xviii, 521 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-501) and index. |
Contents |
Social and demographic characteristics -- Religious and cultural characteristics -- Wives, mothers, and daughters : gender relations in the big house -- Agrarian empires : acquisition, production, profits, problems, and management -- Toiling for old "massa" : slave labor on the great plantations -- Capitalists all : investments and capital accumulation outside the agricultural sector -- Political attitudes and influence : the response of the elite to the first sectional crisis -- The road to Armageddon : the role of the planter elite in the secession crisis -- Days of judgment : the demise of a slave society -- Postwar adjustment : the legacy of emancipation and defeat -- Lords and capitalists : the ideology of the master class -- Appendix A. Slaveholders with 500 or more slaves, 1850 -- Appendix B. Slaveholders with 500 or more slaves, 1860 -- Appendix C. Elite slaveholders by state of residence, 1850 -- Appendix D. Elite slaveholders by state of residence, 1860. |
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Plantation owners -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Plantation owners. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slaveholders. |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Social aspects. |
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Slavery. |
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects. |
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Political aspects. |
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Plantation life. |
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Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.
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Chronological Term |
1775-1865 |
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
ISBN |
0807128821 alkaline paper |
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