9780807131558-0807131555-Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South (Jules and Frances Landry Award)

Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South (Jules and Frances Landry Award)

ISBN-13: 9780807131558
ISBN-10: 0807131555
Edition: Illustrated
Author: William Kauffman Scarborough
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: LSU Press
Format: Paperback 544 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807131558
ISBN-10: 0807131555
Edition: Illustrated
Author: William Kauffman Scarborough
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: LSU Press
Format: Paperback 544 pages

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Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South (Jules and Frances Landry Award) (ISBN-13: 9780807131558 and ISBN-10: 0807131555), written by authors William Kauffman Scarborough, was published by LSU Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic History (Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South (Jules and Frances Landry Award) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.48.

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William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history―the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.

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