Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 232 p
DDC:
306.3/620975
Keywords:
Slavery History 19th century
;
Plantation owners History 19th century
;
Paternalism History 19th century
;
Slaves Social conditions 19th century
;
Plantation workers History 19th century
;
Whites Social conditions 19th century
Abstract:
"Slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of plantation life. However, masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants remains 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"--
