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Bonds of Womanhood
Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination
of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830-1890)-a
white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to
participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky.
Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses
Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues
at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil
War.
Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of
abolitionist activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of
conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling an
enslaved person. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to
hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal
authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This
compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated
in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new
perspectives on their complicity in slavery.
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Southern society and its transformations, 1790-1860
In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia's vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book's last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship.
Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South's economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.
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Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white, free black, and Indian.Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity. Thirteen essays explore the working lives of a wide range of women--nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants--in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South. By highlighting contrasts between paid and unpaid, officially acknowledged and \"invisible\" work within the context of cultural attitudes regarding women's proper place in society, the book sheds new light on the ambiguities that marked relations between race, class, and gender in the modernizing South.The contributors are E. Susan Barber, Bess Beatty, Emily Bingham, James Taylor Carson, Emily Clark, Stephanie Cole, Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, Sarah Hill, Barbara J. Howe, Timothy J. Lockley, Stephanie McCurry, Diane Batts Morrow, and Penny L. Richards.ContributorsE. Susan Barber, College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, Md.)Bess Beatty, Oregon State University (Eugene, Ore.)Emily Bingham (Louisville, Ky.)James Taylor Carson, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)Emily Clark, University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Miss.)Stephanie Cole, University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, Tex.)Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.)Sarah Hill (Atlanta, Ga.)Barbara J. Howe, West Virginia University (Morgantown, W. Va.)Timothy J. Lockley, University of Warwick (Coventry, England)Stephanie McCurry,
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)Diane Batts Morrow, University of Georgia (Athens, Ga.)Penny L. Richards, UCLA Center for the Study of Women (Los Angeles, Calif.)-->.
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Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South
Covering the late colonial age to World War I and beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of the American South in an international light by establishing useful comparisons with the larger Atlantic and world economy. In an attempt to dispel long-lasting myths about the South, the essays analyze the economic evolution of the South since the slave era. From this perspective, the conception of a backward, wholly agricultural antebellum South occupied only by wealthy planters, poor whites, and contented slaves has finally given way to one of economic and social dynamism as well as regional prosperity.
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