The Old South : New Studies of Society and Culture (Hardcover)

Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The dilemma, 2 Slavery and plantation capitalism in Louisiana’s sugar country, 3 Ideology and death on a Savannah River rice plantation, 1833?1867: paternalism amidst “A Good Supply Of Disease And Pain”, 4 Old South time in comparative perspective, 5 Slavery, freedom, and social claims to property among African Americans in Liberty County, Georgia, 1850?1880, 6 The pleasures of resistance: enslaved women and body politics in the Plantation South, 1830?1861, 7 The management of negroes, 8 The slave trader, the white slave, and the politics of racial determination in the 1850s, 9 Tippecanoe and the ladies, too: white women and party politics in antebellum Virginia, 10 The sex of a human being, 11 To harden a lady’s hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia, 12 Law, domestic violence, and the limits of patriarchal authority in the antebellum South, Index