Masters of small worlds : yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country / Stephanie McCurry
Tables -- 1. Boundaries of Power -- 2. Producing Independence -- 3. Unequal Masters -- 4. ""Like a Great Family"": Nullification Revivals and the Making of Popular Religion in the Low Country -- 5. ""Households of Faith"": Gender, Power, and Proslavery Christianity -- 6. Slavery, Gender, and the ""Social Fabrick, "" -- 7. Manly Resistance, Slavish Submission, and the Political Culture of the Low Country -- 8. ""To Repel the Invaders at the Threshold"" -- Appendix -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary
The book examines the yeomanry in the South Carolina Low Country before the Civil War. It focuses on the relationship between the yeomanry - the small farmers - and the planters, with whom they had strong ideological ties. The book deals with gender and class issues as well.; This book is intended for those interested in Antebellum Southern US Society
