This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic white male identity.
This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic white male identity.
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb is professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The World The Planters Made Chapter 1: The Overseer, His Contracts, and His Contractual Relationships Chapter 2: Profitable Planters, Industrious Overseers, Maintaining the Status Quo Chapter 3: "Pushing" Torture, Managing Violence, and Planter Regulation of Overseer Control Chapter 4: White Masculinities, Private Law, and the Battle for Social Control Chapter 5: Immoral Men, Immoral Ends, Deference as Social Death Epilogue: The "Lost Cause" and the Legacy of Plantation Management Bibliography About the Author
Introduction: The World The Planters Made Chapter 1: The Overseer, His Contracts, and His Contractual Relationships Chapter 2: Profitable Planters, Industrious Overseers, Maintaining the Status Quo Chapter 3: "Pushing" Torture, Managing Violence, and Planter Regulation of Overseer Control Chapter 4: White Masculinities, Private Law, and the Battle for Social Control Chapter 5: Immoral Men, Immoral Ends, Deference as Social Death Epilogue: The "Lost Cause" and the Legacy of Plantation Management Bibliography About the Author
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