Masters of the Big House,9780807131558

Masters of the Big House

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ISBN13: 9780807131558
ISBN10: 0807131555
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

This eagerly awaited masterwork by one of the most important scholars of southern history profiles the richest slaveholders of the South.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xlii
ABBREVIATIONS xvii
INTRODUCTION 1(372)
1 Social and Demographic Characteristics
18(34)
2 Religious and Cultural Characteristics
52(38)
3 Wives, Mothers, and Daughters: Gender Relations in the Big House
90(32)
4 Agrarian Empires: Acquisition, Production, Profits, Problems, and Management
122(53)
5 Toiling for Old "Massa": Slave Labor on the Great Plantations
175(42)
6 Capitalists All: Investments and Capital Accumulation Outside the Agricultural Sector
217(21)
7 Political Attitudes and Influence: The Response of the Elite to the First Sectional Crisis
238(37)
8 The Road to Armageddon: The Role of the Planter Elite in the Secession Crisis
275(41)
9 Days of Judgment: The Demise of a Slave Society
316(57)
10 Postwar Adjustment: The Legacy of Emancipation and Defeat 373(33)
11 Lords and Capitalists: The Ideology of the Master Class 406(21)
Appendix A: Slaveholders with 500 or More Slaves, 1850 427(4)
Appendix B: Slaveholders with 500 or More Slaves, 1860 431(8)
Appendix C: Elite Slaveholders by State of Residence, 1850 439(17)
Appendix D: Elite Slaveholders by State of Residence, 1860 456(29)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 485(18)
INDEX 503

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