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

• Wood, Kirsten E. Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War.