Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0813029767 / ISBN 13: 9780813029764

Edité par University Press of Florida, 2006

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xl., 596pp, miscellaneous documents, glossary, index. Very light foxing to top edge. Otherwise excellent tight clean copy. BHS 03/26.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1772515189995

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones
• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0813029767
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780813029764
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Slavery
  • US History

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Synopsis

This re-issue of the classic 1927 documentary edition by historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and his doctoral student, James David Glunt, features a new introduction by John David Smith about its publishing history, its editors, and its scholarly value to southern historiography. Originally published by the Missouri Historical Society, it documents the plantation records of George Noble Jones and his two Florida plantations, El Destino and Chemonie, both located near Tallahassee, Florida. Considered one of the most accurate and comprehensive accounts of plantation management ever published, it remains one of the best primary source documents on plantation overseers and management. Phillips was the leading American slavery historian in the early 20th century; Glunt went on to become a history professor at the University of Florida. "Most of the writings here published are from the pens of men of little schooling," Phillips and Glunt explain; ". . . these plantation overseers presumably could not have written in better form than they did. And yet the editors have a duty to make the text reasonably easy to read." Principally covering the middle years of the 19th century, Florida Plantation Records provides a rich array of details essential to understanding slavery and plantation life in Florida--from slave names, ages, and work loads, to medical bills and weather reports, to production records, slave family genealogical information, and post-Civil War tenant agreements. In addition to defining the historical value of the primary text, Smith's introduction evaluates the work of the editors within the context of 1920s editorial practice and historiography. Phillips held a proslavery, paternalistic view of African Americans--a bias shared by most leading historians and social scientists of the pre-civil rights era. But as Smith shows, Phillips' views did not undermine his role as a groundbreaking researcher who held himself and his contemporaries to the highest standards. Renowned for his determination and success in locating and preserving plantation manuscripts, Phillips was among the first historians to base their work on "scientific" methods. His significant publications helped to establish American slavery as a sub-field of southern history. This important volume--still relevant to scholars today--will be welcomed by historians of slavery, African American studies, the Old South, Florida, U.S. economics, and the Reconstruction era, as well as students, teachers, and libraries.

À propos de l?auteur

John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. In addition to editing the University Press of Florida's New Perspectives on the History of the South series, he has written or edited numerous books, including Black Voices from Reconstruction, Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and 'The American Negro, ' and Black Soldiers in Blue: African-American Troops in the Civil War Era.