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Author:

Scarborough, William Kauffman.

Title:

Masters of the big house : elite slaveholders of the mid-nineteenth-century South / William Kauffman Scarborough.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xviii, 521 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Plantation owners--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slaveholders--Southern States--History--19th century.
Elite (Social sciences)--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slavery--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slavery--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slavery--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Plantation life--Southern States--History--19th century.
Southern States--History--1775-1865.
Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
Southern States--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

ISBN:

9780807128824 (alk. paper)
0807128821 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003007301

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OQAX737 -- Iowa Western Community College - Edith Lisle Library (Clarinda)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)