Author : Michael Tadman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015510483
Speculators and Slaves by Michael Tadman Pdf
"In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tadman establishes that all levels of white society in the antebellum South were deeply involved in a massive interregional trade in slaves. Using countless previously untapped manuscript sources, he documents black resilience in the face of the pervasive indifference of slaveholders toward slaves and their families ... By exploring the gulf between the slaveholders' self-image as benevolent paternalists and their actual behavior, Tadman critiques the theories of close accommodation and paternalistic hegemony that are currently influential"--From publisher's description.