Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South - Hardcover

Scarborough, William Kauffman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807128821 ISBN 13: 9780807128824

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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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In this volume, William Kauffman Scarborough unveils new data about one of the most powerful groups in American history: the 340 wealthiest aristocratic planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860.

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• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0807128821
• ISBN 13: 9780807128824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 536