Masters of the big house, elite slaveholders of the mid-nineteenth-century South, William Kauffman Scarborough
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- Plantation owners -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865
- Slavery + Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Race relations
- Slavery + Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Masters of the big house, elite slaveholders of the mid-nineteenth-century South, William Kauffman Scarborough
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-501) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Masters of the big house
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bibliography
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51984922
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William Kauffman Scarborough
Sub title
elite slaveholders of the mid-nineteenth-century South
Table of 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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