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Masters of Small Worlds
Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
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In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society, the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers
extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, the book shows how the fateful political choices made by the lowcountry yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household:
in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and
ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the
small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.
Subject categories
- Academic > History > Latin America. Spanish America > South America > Uruguay
- Academic > History > United States local history > The South. South Atlantic States > South Carolina
- Academic > History > United States local history > New England > Maine
- Academic > History > Latin America. Spanish America > South America
- Academic > History > United States local history > New England
- Academic > History > United States local history > The South. South Atlantic States
- Academic > History > United States local history
- Academic > History > Latin America. Spanish America
- Academic > History
- Academic > Humanities
- History > United States > 19th Century
- Social Science > Sociology
- History > United States
- History
- Social Science
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9781601298522
9780195072365
1601298528