Masters of small worlds : yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country / Stephanie McCurry.
The book examines the yeomanry in the South Carolina Low Country before the Civil War. It focuses on the relationship between the yeomanry - the small farmers - and the planters, with whom they had strong ideological ties. The book deals with gender and class issues as well.; This book is intended f...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Tables
- 1. Boundaries of Power
- 2. Producing Independence
- 3. Unequal Masters
- 4. ""Like a Great Family"": Nullification Revivals and the Making of Popular Religion in the Low Country
- 5. ""Households of Faith"": Gender, Power, and Proslavery Christianity
- 6. Slavery, Gender, and the ""Social Fabrick, ""
- 7. Manly Resistance, Slavish Submission, and the Political Culture of the Low Country
- 8. ""To Repel the Invaders at the Threshold""
- Appendix
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.