Domesticating Slavery

The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), 19th Century
Cover of the book Domesticating Slavery by Jeffrey Robert Young, The University of North Carolina Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jeffrey Robert Young ISBN: 9780807876183
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: October 12, 2005
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Jeffrey Robert Young
ISBN: 9780807876183
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: October 12, 2005
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning culture that cast the southern planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward--even as slaveholders were brutally exploiting their slaves for maximum fiscal gain.

Domesticating Slavery offers a surprising answer to the long-standing question about slaveholders' relationship with the proliferating capitalistic markets of early-nineteenth-century America. Whereas previous scholars have depicted southern planters either as efficient businessmen who embraced market economics or as paternalists whose ideals placed them at odds with the industrializing capitalist society in the North, Young instead demonstrates how capitalism and paternalism acted together in unexpected ways to shape slaveholders' identity as a ruling elite. Beginning with slaveowners' responses to British imperialism in the colonial period and ending with the sectional crises of the 1830s, he traces the rise of a self-consciously southern master class in the Deep South and the attendant growth of political tensions that would eventually shatter the union.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning culture that cast the southern planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward--even as slaveholders were brutally exploiting their slaves for maximum fiscal gain.

Domesticating Slavery offers a surprising answer to the long-standing question about slaveholders' relationship with the proliferating capitalistic markets of early-nineteenth-century America. Whereas previous scholars have depicted southern planters either as efficient businessmen who embraced market economics or as paternalists whose ideals placed them at odds with the industrializing capitalist society in the North, Young instead demonstrates how capitalism and paternalism acted together in unexpected ways to shape slaveholders' identity as a ruling elite. Beginning with slaveowners' responses to British imperialism in the colonial period and ending with the sectional crises of the 1830s, he traces the rise of a self-consciously southern master class in the Deep South and the attendant growth of political tensions that would eventually shatter the union.

More books from The University of North Carolina Press

Cover of the book Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Themes in Religion and American Culture by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Doctors Under Hitler by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Southern Appalachian Celebration by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Choosing the Jesus Way by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Recreating Africa by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940 by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Rudolf Otto by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Environmental Policy Under Reagan's Executive Order by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book The Land Has Memory by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book A History of the Oratorio by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Virtus Romana by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Raising the White Flag by Jeffrey Robert Young
Cover of the book Who Is Allah? by Jeffrey Robert Young
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy