Masters of the Big House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masters of the Big House write by William Kauffman Scarborough. This book was released on 2006-04-01. Masters of the Big House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.
Casa-grande E Senzala
Casa-grande E Senzala - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Casa-grande E Senzala write by Gilberto Freyre. This book was released on 1986. Casa-grande E Senzala available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How Did They Build That? House
How Did They Build That? House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Did They Build That? House write by Nancy Robinson Masters. This book was released on 2011-01-01. How Did They Build That? House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every town or city is filled with houses of all shapes and sizes, but we don't often stop to think about how they are built. Readers will learn all about the construction process, from foundations to roofs.
The Sugar Masters
The Sugar Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sugar Masters write by Richard Follett. This book was released on 2007-02-01. The Sugar Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.
Unbound: A Novel in Verse
Unbound: A Novel in Verse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unbound: A Novel in Verse write by Ann E. Burg. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Unbound: A Novel in Verse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a breathtaking new novel that is her most transcendent and widely accessible work to date. The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep her eyes down. Uncle Jim warns her to keep her thoughts tucked private in her mind or they could bring a whole lot of trouble and pain. But the more Grace sees of the heartless Master and hateful Missus, the more a rightiness voice clamors in her head-asking how come white folks can own other people, sell them on the auction block, and separate families forever. When that voice escapes without warning, it sets off a terrible chain of events that prove Uncle Jim's words true. Suddenly, Grace and her family must flee deep into the woods, where they brave deadly animals, slave patrollers, and the uncertainty of ever finding freedom. With candor and compassion, Ann E. Burg sheds light on a startling chapter of American history--the remarkable story of runaways who sought sanctuary in the Great Dismal Swamp--and creates a powerful testament to the right of every human to be free.
