Masters of the Big House

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  • Masters of the Big House Book Detail

  • Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
  • Release Date : 2006-04-01
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 541
  • ISBN 13 : 0807131555
  • File Size : 19,19 MB

Masters of the Big House by William Kauffman Scarborough PDF Summary

Book Description: William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern 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 while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.

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