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  • The fruits of merchant capital : the slave South as a paternalist society / Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • Within the plantation household : women in a paternalist system / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • American slavery : a flexible, highly developed form of capitalism / Robert William Fogel
  • Slavery and the circle of culture / Sterling Stuckey
  • The mask of obedience : male slave psychology in the Old South / Bertram Wyatt-Brown
  • The Black family as a mechanism of planter control / Norrece T. Jones, Jr.
  • Love and biography : three courtships / Steven M. Stowe
  • Women and the search for manly independence / Joan E. Cashin
  • Female slaves : sex roles and status in the antebellum plantation South / Deborah G. White.