Term Two: Week 8: Race relations: The Elite
Gobbets
- Slave interviews
- Olmsted, pp692-699
Questions
What is paternalism? Did slaves internalise the concepts of paternalism? How did owners exercise psychological control over slaves?
Core Reading
- Genovese, Eugene D., Roll, Jordan, roll: the world the slaves made.
- Dusinberre, William, Them Dark Days, ( ch6, 11, 12, 14-17)
- Oakes, James, The Ruling Race ch 6 & 7
E-resources
- Thornton, J. Mills Politics and power in a slave society : Alabama, 1800-1860 [ebook]
- Johnson, Michael P., 'Planters and patriarchy: Charleston, 1800-1860', JSH, XLVI, (1980), 45-72.
- May, Robert, 'John A Quitman and his slaves: reconciling slave resistance with the proslavery defense' JSH 46 (1980) 551-570
- Smith, Mark, 'Time, slavery and plantation capitalism in the antebellum south' Past & Present 15 (1996) 142-168
- Shalhope, Robert E., 'Race, class, slavery and the antebellum Southern mind', JSH, XXXVII, (1971), 557-574.
- Johnson, Kenneth, 'Slavery and racism in Florence, Alabama 1841-1862' CWH 27 (1981) 155-171
- Brown, Thomas 'The miscegenation of Richard Mentor Jackson as an issue in the national election campaign of 1835-1836' CWH 39 (1993) 5-30
- Chaplin, Joyce E., 'Slavery and the principle of humanity: a modern idea in the early lower South', JSocH, XXIV, (1990), 299-316.
Further reading
- Genovese, Eugene D., The world the slaveholders made: two essays in interpretation.
- Hoetink, H., Slavery and race relations in the Americas
- Oakes, James, Slavery and freedom: an interpretation of the old South.
- Parish, P. Slavery, History and Historians
- Sobel, Mechal, The world they made together
- Hoffmann, Charles & Tess, North By South: the two lives of Richard James Arnold
- Degler, Carl, At odds: women and the family in America from the Revolution to the present
- Evans, S.M., Born for liberty: a history of women in America
- Harris, B.J., Beyond her sphere: women and the professions in American History
- Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie, Anna, the letters of a St Simon's Island plantation mistress, 1817-1859
- Lerner, Gerder, The women in American History
- Proctor, Nicolas, Bathed in blood: hunting and mastery in the old south
- Scott, Anne, The Southern lady from pedestal to politics
- Genovese, Eugene D., The political economy of slavery. London, 1966
- Genovese, Eugene D., 'Marxian interpretations of the slave South', in Towards a new past: dissenting essays in American history. Bernstein, Barton, J., [ed.],
- hompson, Edgar T., Plantation societies, race relations and the South: the regimentation of societies.
- Greenberg, Kenneth, Honor and Slavery
- Weinstein, Allen, American Negro slavery (pt 2)
- Ball, Edward, Slaves in the Family
- Elizabeth Varon, We mean to be counted: white women and politics in antebellum Virginia
- Bardaglio, Peter, Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South
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Wood, Kirsten E. Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War.