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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Map: The Old South in 1860 | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Modern Old South.Introduction to Documents and Essays | |
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| An "Old" Old South | |
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| Sketches of the South Santee, 1797-1798.A Georgia Planter on the Classical South, 1835 | |
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| A Georgia Planter Bemoans the Cost of Slavery, 1846 | |
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| An "Old" Old South | |
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| An Old South by the Clock | |
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| The Importance of "Early Rising," 1851 | |
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| Clock Time and Southern Railroads, 1834 | |
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| Plantation Time, 1851 | |
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| Timing Slave Labor by the Watch, 1843 | |
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| Plantation Time from a Slave's Perspective, 1847 | |
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| An Old South by the Clock | |
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| Study Questions and Further Reading | |
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| Southern Honor, Southern Violence | |
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| Introduction to Documents and Essays | |
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| The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance | |
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| Affronts to Honor in a Southern Newspaper, 1843 | |
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| Public Accusations of Falsehood, 1833 | |
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| Codes of Honor and Dueling, 1858 | |
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| The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance | |
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| Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World | |
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| A Traveller's Comments on the "Barbarity" of the Southern Frontier, 1816 | |
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| A Traveller Observes Techniques of Fighting. 1807 | |
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| "Tall talk" Among Ruffians, 1843 | |
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| Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World | |
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| Study Questions and Further Reading | |
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| Constructing And Defending Slavery | |
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| Introduction to Documents and Essays | |
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| Slavery Ordained of God | |
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| Frederick Law Olmstead Recounts Impressions of a Religious Meeting, 1856 | |
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| James Henley Thornwell's Defense of Slavery, 1860 | |
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| Slavery Ordained of God | |
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| Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen | |
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| James Henley Thornwell Associates Slavery and Gender Relations, 1852 | |
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| Manning's Letter to his Wife, 1860 George Howe Justifies the Subordination of Women, 1850 | |
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| Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen | |
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| Study Questions and Further Reading | |
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| Communities, Cultures, and Economies: Lives of the Enslaved | |
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| Introduction to Documents and Essays | |
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| Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy Charles Manigault's Plantation Journal, 1844 | |
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| A South Carolina Rice Planter on the Slaves' Economy, 1858 | |
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| Petition and Deposition of Former Slaves, 1873 | |
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| Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy | |
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| Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy | |
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| A Foreign Traveller Observes Wage-earning Slaves, 1860 Slaves on Trial, 1846 | |
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| Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy | |
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| Study Questions and Further Reading | |
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| Selling Southern Bodies.Introduction to Documents and Essays | |
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| The Slave Trader in Image and Reality | |
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| A Boston Minister on Slave Traders, 1855 | |
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| A Slaveholder Comments on Traders and Prices, 1846 | |
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| A Trader Notes Market Prices for Slaves, 1859 | |
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| The Slave Trader in Image and Reality | |
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| Reading Bodies, Answering Questions | |
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| A Southern Physician on "Unsoundness in the Negro," 1858-1859 | |
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| A Trader Notes How Slaves Affect Their Sales, 1856 | |
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| A Former Slave Notes Buyers Reading Bodies, 1855 | |
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| A Slave Reads a Buyer, 1858 | |
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| Asking Questions and Reading Bodies | |
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| Study Questions and Further Reading | |
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| Womanhood in Black and White | |
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| Introduction to Documents and Essays | |
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| Breast-Feeding and Elite White Womanhood | |
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| Southern Medical Opinions on Wet Nursing and Breast Feeding, 1850 | |
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| Newspaper Advertisements for Wet Nurses, 1859 | |
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| A Southern Mother on Child-Rearing, 1844 | |
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| Breast-Feeding and Elite White Motherhood | |
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| Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood | |
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| Defining a "Good Wife" and "Good Woman," 1835 | |
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| Testimony of Three former Virginia Female Slaves | |
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| Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood | |
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| Study Q | |