Masters of the Big House : Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South /

"In this volume, William Kauffman Scarborough unveils new information about one of the most powerful groups in American history, the 340 wealthiest aristocratic planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scarborough, William Kauffman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavernij.
Slavenhouders.
Elites.
Plantage-eigenaren.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Oberschicht
Sklaverei
Slavery > United States > Social conditions.
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > Economic aspects.
Slavery > Southern States.
Plantation owners > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Social conditions
Slavery > Social aspects.
Slavery > Political aspects.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slaveholders.
Race relations.
Plantation owners.
Plantation life.
Elite (Social sciences)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Proprietaires d'esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Proprietaires de plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Plantation life > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Plantation owners > Southern States > History > 19th century.
USA > Südstaaten
United States, Southern States > Social life and customs.
United States, Southern States > Slavery and bondage > History.
United States, Southern States > History.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > History > 1775-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In this volume, William Kauffman Scarborough unveils new information about one of the most powerful groups in American history, the 340 wealthiest aristocratic planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society and - despite their racism and Yankeephobia - evinced the qualities of honor, generosity, and even grandeur associated with the term "southern gentleman." Scarborough examines in detail the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, their responses to the sectional crisis of their time, and gender relations in the Big House." "Also recounted are planters' slave management methods, their contributions and sacrifices during the Civil War, and their adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and a postwar world alien to the one they had dominated."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (544 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780807156001

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