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Major Butler's legacy : five generations of a slaveholding family / by Bell, Malcolm,1913-2001.(CARDINAL)186884;
Bibliography: pages 631-648.
Subjects: Biographies.; Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822.; Butler family.; Plantation owners; Plantation owners; Plantation life; Plantation life;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The Confederacy : the slaveholders' failed venture / by Escott, Paul D.,1947-(CARDINAL)135795;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A revolution, with contradictions -- A revolution in the Revolution -- Dark and dangerous times -- Losing battles, losing hope -- Holding on: a test of wills -- Frustration and collapse.
Subjects: Slaveholders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A darkness at Ingraham's Crest : a tale of the slaveholding South / by Yerby, Frank,1916-1991.(CARDINAL)141154;
AD700LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Enslaved persons; Slavery;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Single, white, slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South / by Molloy, Marie S.,author.(CARDINAL)783452;
"Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women--from the pre- to the post-Civil War South--within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate nonmarriage, widowhood, separation, and divorce. These single women were not subject to the laws and customs of coverture, in which females were covered by or subject to the governance of fathers, brothers, and husbands, and therefore lived with greater autonomy than married women. Molloy contends that the Civil War proved a catalyst for accelerating personal, social, economic, and legal changes for these women. Being a single woman during this time often meant living a creative and nuanced life, operating within a tight framework of traditional gender conventions while managing subtle changes that worked to their advantage. Singleness was often a route to autonomy and independence that over time expanded and reshaped traditional ideals of Southern womanhood"--Includes bibliographical references and index.The construction of femininity in the antebellum South -- Single women and the southern family -- Work -- Female friendship -- Law, property, and the single woman.
Subjects: Single women; Slaveholders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / by Faust, Drew Gilpin.(CARDINAL)158624;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The ruling race : a history of American slaveholders / by Oakes, James.(CARDINAL)162776;
Bibliography: pages 287-295.
Subjects: Slaveholders; Slavery;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Fatal self-deception : slaveholding paternalism in the Old South / by Genovese, Eugene D.,1930-2012.(CARDINAL)157012; Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth,1941-2007.(CARDINAL)164787;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-210) and index.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."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"--Provided by publisher."Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family, and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness, and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants, 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"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Slavery; Plantation owners; Paternalism; Enslaved persons; Plantation workers; White people;
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Southern stories : slaveholders in peace and war / by Faust, Drew Gilpin.(CARDINAL)158624;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Slaveholders; Slavery;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Without indentures : index to white slave children in colonial court records [Maryland and Virginia] / by Phillips, Richard Hayes,author.(CARDINAL)327630;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this groundbreaking work, Richard Hayes Phillips has collected the names of more than five thousand children kidnapped from Ireland, Scotland, England, and New England, and sold into slavery in Maryland and Virginia, c. 1660-1720. By English law dated 1659, it was lawful for justices of the peace to kidnap children found begging or vagrant and ship them to the plantations as servants without indentures. The younger the child, the longer the sentence, and the colonial county courts were the judges of their ages. These five thousand names, culled from the Court Order Books, some of which have not been examined for centuries, have now been compiled into one genealogical index. In almost every case the entries provide the name of the child, the name of the owner, the date they appeared in court, and the age assigned by the judges, many of whom owned the very children they were sentencing to servitude. For ease of use, the volume contains an index to the ships--and their captains--that imported these kidnapped children, as well as a surname index to guide the researcher to alternate or incorrect spellings as found in the Court Order Books. The Introduction to Mr. Phillips?s book describes the history and conditions of white servitude in colonial Maryland and Virginia, along with an annotated list of the sources he consulte"--The publisher.
Subjects: Family histories.; Enslaved children; Enslaved children; Kidnapping; Kidnapping; Kidnapping; Slaveholders; Slaveholders; Court records; Court records;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Reconstructing the Gospel : finding freedom from slaveholder religion / by Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan,1980-author.(CARDINAL)488490; Barber, William J.,II,1963-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)408829;
Includes bibliographical references.Slaveholder religion -- Christmas on the plantation -- Immoral majority -- Racial blindness -- Living in skin -- This is my body, broken -- A gilded cross in the public square -- The Christianity of Christ -- The other half of history -- Moral revival -- Having church -- Healing the heart -- A letter to my grandfather and son.Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ, showing that when the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings both for individuals and for society as a whole."'I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided.' Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, 'Amazing grace, how sweet the sound' also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond. When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings both for individuals and for society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land"
Subjects: Racism; Liberty; Racism; Race relations; Racism.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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