Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South - Couverture souple

Tadman, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299118541 ISBN 13 : 9780299118549

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tadman establishes that all levels of white society in the antebellum South were deeply involved in a massive interregional trade in slaves. Using countless previously untapped manuscript sources, he documents black resilience in the face of the pervasive indifference of slaveholders toward slaves and their families. This new paperback edition of Speculators and Slaves offers a substantial new Introduction that advances a major thesis of master-slave relationships. By exploring the gulf between the slaveholders' self-image as benevolent paternalists and their actual behavior, Tadman critiques the theories of close accommodation and paternalistic hegemony that are currently influential.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Tadman is lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Liverpool. His other published work includes a new edition of Frederic Bancroft's 1931 classic, Slave Trading in the Old South.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299118541
• ISBN 13: 9780299118549
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible