The Southern Planter

The Southern Planter
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2023-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382311690

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Monthly Bulletin

Monthly Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1911
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Monthly Bulletin

Monthly Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1911
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Contains the list of accessions to the library, formerly (1894-1909) issued quarterly in its series of "Bulletins."

The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer

The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Author: James L. Huston
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0807159190

JAMES L. HUSTON is professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War; Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900; Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War ; and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.

Fatal Self-Deception

Fatal Self-Deception
Author: Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139501631

Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.

The Sweetness of Life

The Sweetness of Life
Author: Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108509398

This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a penetrating study of slaveholders and their families in both intimate and domestic settings: at home; attending the theatre; going on vacations to spas and springs; throwing parties; hunting; gambling; drinking and entertaining guests, completing a comprehensive portrait of the slaveholders and the world that they built with slaves. Genovese subtly but powerfully demonstrates how much politics, economics, and religion shaped, informed, and made possible these leisure activities. A fascinating investigation of a little-studied aspect of planter life, The Sweetness of Life broadens our understanding of the world that the slaveholders and their slaves made; a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.