Format:
1 online resource (252 pages)
ISBN:
9781139157797
Content:
This book discusses how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of life on the plantation.
Content:
Cover -- Fatal Self-Deception Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South -- Advance Praise for Fatal Self-Deception -- Title -- Copyright -- For Deborah Ann Symonds Gifted Scholar and Wonderful Friend and For her partner, Melissa Cano, and their children, Sarah and Sam -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Manuscript Collections -- Introduction -- 1 "Boisterous Passions" -- Edmund Burke's Cautionary Tale -- Morals -- Apprehensive Parents -- Young Gentlemen in Fields and Stores -- Weighed in the Balances -- 2 The Complete Household -- Paternal Authority -- Property in Man? -- Household Problems -- Slave Sales -- 3 Strangers within the Gates -- Sundry White Servants -- Governesses and Tutors -- Hired Laborers -- Overseers and Their Families -- 4 Loyal and Loving Slaves -- Masterful Forbearance -- Mutual Dependency and Manipulation -- Souls -- Grief and Money -- Tests of Faith -- Dangerous Wishes -- 5 The Blacks' Best and Most Faithful Friend -- A Stagnant Race -- Black Incapacity -- Black Thoughts, According to White Critics -- Views of Emancipation -- News from Africa -- The Fate of the Indians -- The Specter of Barbarism -- 6 Guardians of a Helpless Race -- Vindication from the Free States -- Abolitionism Indicted for Racism -- Persistent Fears of Black Extermination -- White Recognition of Black Achievement -- An Incongruity -- 7 Devotion unto Death -- Armed Slaves: Friends or Foes? -- Concern for White Women -- Mounting Crises -- Body Servants in War and Propaganda -- The Confederacy Opts for Black Troops -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. "Boisterous Passions" -- 2. The Complete Household -- 3. Strangers within the Gates -- 4. Loyal and Loving Slaves -- 5. The Blacks' Best and Most Faithful Friend -- 6. Guardians of a Helpless Race -- 7. Devotion unto Death -- Index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Boisterous passions'; 2. The complete household; 3. Strangers within the gates; 4. Loyal and loving slaves; 5. The blacks' best and most faithful friend; 6. Guardians of a helpless race; 7. Devotion unto death.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107011649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107011649
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=807218
