Life And Labor In The Old South

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1570036780

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Life and Labor in the Old South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Pdf

Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by the leading historian of African American slavery of the first half of the twentieth century. Life and Labor in the Old South represents both the strengths and weaknesses of first-rate scholarship by whites on the topics of antebellum African and African American slavery during the Jim Crow era. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully written, Phillips's germinal account set the standard for his contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives. Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned Life and Labor in the Old South its place at the forefront of texts in the historiography of the antebellum South and African American slavery. The book is both a work of high scholarship and an example of the power of unexamined prejudices to affect such a work.

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Slavery
ISBN : OCLC:62313434

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Life and Labor in the Old South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Pdf

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips,C. Vann Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1043020701

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Life and Labor in the Old South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips,C. Vann Woodward Pdf

Author : Aaron W. Marrs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801891304

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Railroads in the Old South by Aaron W. Marrs Pdf

Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. -- Dr. Owen Brown and Dr. Gale E. Gibson

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips,Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 0807101346

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The Slave Economy of the Old South by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips,Eugene D. Genovese Pdf

Author : John Herbert Roper
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865541124

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U.B. Philips, a Southern Mind by John Herbert Roper Pdf

Author : Sally G. McMillen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119147749

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Southern Women by Sally G. McMillen Pdf

The third edition of Southern Women relays the historical narrative of both black and white women in the patriarchal South. Covering primarily the years between 1800 and 1865, it shows the strengths and varied experiences of these women—on plantations, small farms, in towns and cities, in the Deep South, the Upper South, and the mountain South. It offers fascinating information on family life, sexuality, and marriage; reproduction and childrearing; education and religion; women and work; and southern women and the Confederacy. Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South, Third Edition distills and incorporates recent scholarship by historians. It presents a well-written, more complicated, multi-layered picture of Southern women’s lives than has ever been written about before—thanks to its treatment of current, relevant historiographical debates. The book also: Includes new scholarship published since the second edition appeared Pays more attention to women in the Deep South, especially the experiences of those living in Louisiana and Mississippi Is part of the highly successful American History Series The third edition of Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South will serve as a welcome supplementary text in college or community-college-level survey courses in U.S., Women’s, African-American, or Southern history. It will also be useful as a reference for graduate seminars or colloquia.

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807152485

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James Henry Hammond and the Old South by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman’s troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and an ardent defender of slavery and white supremacy, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and ambition provides a composite portrait of the civilization in which he flourished. A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust’s James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time. Of humble origins, Hammond set out to conquer his society, to make himself a leader and a spokesman for the Old South. Through marriage he acquired a large plantation and many slaves, and then through their coerced labor, shrewd management practices, and progressive farming techniques, he soon became one of the wealthiest men in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served as governor of his state. Evidence that he sexually abused four of his teenage nieces forced him to retreat for many years to his plantation, but eventually he returned to public view, winning a seat in the United States Senate that he resigned when South Carolina seceded from the Union. James Henry Hammond’s ambition was unquenchable. It consumed his life, directed almost his every move and ultimately, in its titanic calculation and rigidity, destroyed the man confined within it. Like Faulkner’s Thomas Sutpen, Faust suggests, Hammond had a “design,” a compulsion to direct every moment of his life toward self-aggrandizement and legitimation. Despite his sexual abuse of enslaved females and their children, like other plantation owners, Hammond envisioned himself as benevolent and paternal. He saw himself as the absolute master of his family and slaves, but neither his family, his slaves, nor even his own behavior was completely under his command. Hammond fervently wished to perfect and preserve what he envisioned as the southern way of life. But these goals were also beyond his control. At the time of his death it had become clear to him that his world, the world of the Old South, had ended.

Author : Daniel Joseph Singal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469616278

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The War Within by Daniel Joseph Singal Pdf

The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth. He explores the lives and works of historians Ulrich B. Phillips and Broadus Mitchell; novelists Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren; publisher William T. Couch; sociologists Howard Odum, Rupert Vance, Guy Johnson, and Arthur Raper; and Agrarian poets John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and Allen Tate. The drama Singal unfolds is as much national as regional in its implications. His sophisticated and original analysis of the complex relationship between these southern writers and their heritage enables him to trace the transition to Modernism with unusual clarity and to address questions of major importance in American intellectual history: How did Modernism come into being? Does it display a fundamental, underlying pattern? What are its essential values, beliefs, and assumptions? Singal marshals archival and published sources and combines them with oral history interviews to trace this process of change on the levels of both formal thought and individual experience. He uses the interwar South as the locale for a pioneering examination of the momentous change that has affected all of Western culture.

Author : Daniel Joseph Singal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0807840874

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The War Within by Daniel Joseph Singal Pdf

The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between t

Author : John David Smith
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0809328445

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An Old Creed for the New South by John David Smith Pdf

An Old Creed for the New South:Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918 details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. Award-winning historian John David Smith argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. Smith draws extensively on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches to counter the belief that debates over slavery ended with emancipation. After the Civil War, Americans in both the North and the South continued to debate slavery’s merits as a labor, legal, and educational system and as a mode of racial control. The study details how white Southerners continued to tout slavery as beneficial for both races long after Confederate defeat. During Reconstruction and after Redemption, Southerners continued to refine proslavery ideas while subjecting blacks to new legal, extralegal, and social controls. An Old Creed for the New South links pre– and post–Civil War racial thought, showing historical continuity, and treats the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws in new ways, connecting these important racial and legal themes to intellectual and social history. Although many blacks and some whites denounced slavery as the source of the contemporary “Negro problem,” most whites, including late nineteenth-century historians, championed a “new” proslavery argument. The study also traces how historian Ulrich B. Phillips and Progressive Era scholars looked at slavery as a golden age of American race relations and shows how a broad range of African Americans, including Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, responded to the proslavery argument. Such ideas, Smith posits, provided a powerful racial creed for the New South. This examination of black slavery in the American public mind—which includes the arguments of former slaves, slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, novelists, and essayists—demonstrates that proslavery ideology dominated racial thought among white southerners, and most white northerners, in the five decades following the Civil War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:39015071121027

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The Michigan Alumnus by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Robert H. Zieger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Labor
ISBN : 0813037956

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Life and Labor in the New New South by Robert H. Zieger Pdf

This collection of essays explores the dynamic new face of Southern labour since 1950, examining such topics as southern deindustrialisation, union activism in the healthcare industry, labour-community coalitions, the politics of southern anti-unionism, and immigrant labour in southern agriculture.

Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851095490

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Slavery in the United States [2 volumes] by Junius P. Rodriguez Pdf

A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects—social, political, and economic—of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through Reconstruction. For 250 years, slavery was part of the fabric of American life. The institution had an enormous economic impact and was central to the wealth of the agrarian South. It had as great an impact on American culture, cementing racism and other attitudes that echo into the present. This encyclopedia is an ambitious examination of all the issues surrounding slavery: the origins, the justifications, the controversies, and the human drama. These volumes represent the work of 75 distinguished scholars from around the world. Ten thematic essays present a thorough examination of slavery and slave culture, including a rare treatment of slavery from the slave's point of view. Three hundred A–Z entries provide instant access to specific people, issues, and events. Today, slavery's immorality seems obvious. This encyclopedia provides the student or general reader with an in-depth explanation of how the practice evolved and was normalized, then anathematized and abolished.

Author : Hugh Tulloch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0719049385

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The Debate On the American Civil War Era by Hugh Tulloch Pdf

This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present. The racial question was one of the central causes of the war; there was recognition of the need for America to conform wholly to the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." The book both analyzes historians' attitudes and assumptions, and suggests that each writer's perspective was partly determined by the dictates of time and place.