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Unification of a Slave State - The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808 - Rachel N. Klein

This book describes the turbulent transformation of South Carolina from a colony rent by sectional conflict into a state dominated by the South's most unified and politically powerful planter leadership. Rachel Klein unravels the sources of conflict and growing unity, showing how a deep commitment to slavery enabled leaders from both low- and backcountry to define the terms of political and ideological compromise.The spread of cotton into the backcountry, often invoked as the reason for South Carolina's..

DKK 568.95

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Domesticating Slavery - The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 - Jeffrey Robert Young

An account of the southern American slaveholders' path toward a sectional mentality. Drawing on archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic and literary sources, it traces the growth of a slave-owning culture that cast the planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward.

DKK 713.95

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William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker - Benjamin E. Wise

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.

DKK 577.95

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Foul Means - The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 - Anthony S. Parent Jr.

A challenge to the belief that the introduction of racial slavery in America was the consequence of a scarce labour market. It contends that during the late-17th and early-18th centuries a small, powerful planter class, to further its own economic interests, brought racial slavery to Virginia.

DKK 533.95

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Sugar and Slaves - The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 - Richard S. Dunn

Presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region.

DKK 588.95

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A Social History of the Sea Islands - with Special Reference to St. Helena Island, South Carolina - Guion Griffis Johnson

The author has drawn on newly discovered manuscripts and the US Treasury archives to present a complete picture of the Sea Islands during the Federal occupation during the Civil War. The book contains accounts of indigo culture, the St. Helena slave market, the planter aristocracy, the slave community, the black as landowner, and the effects of the Civil War. Originally published in 1930.

DKK 234.00

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Dreaming of Dixie - How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture - Karen L. Cox

From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, and the chivalrous planter. Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of this constructed nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region.

DKK 432.95

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The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens - Rod Andrew Jr.

Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining..

DKK 454.95

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The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover

After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published..

DKK 643.95

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The Senator and the Sharecropper - The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer - Chris Myers Asch

In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become..

DKK 397.95

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Seed from Madagascar - Duncan Clinch Heyward

A storm in 1685 brought, in a wind-tossed brigantine seeking haven in the port of Charles Town, the scant bushel of seed from Madagascar which became the source of the famous Carolina Gold rice. The story of rice growing from this period until 1911, when a storm destroyed rice planting in South Carolina is told here by one-time Governor Heyward who was a rice planter himself.Originally published in 1937.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology..

DKK 613.95

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