Winner of the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians.
Southern intellectual George Fitzhugh provides a passionate defense of slavery in this nearly 400-page volume published in 1857. Further developing ideas in his previous work Sociology for the South, Fitzhugh...
Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought.
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African ...
Ulrich Phillips argued that a paternal relationship existed between master and slave, that slaves were docile and content, and that slave life was no more difficult than the lives of other nineteenth-century laborers.
For a detailed treatment of colonial South Carolina politics , see M. Eugene Sirmans , Colonial South Carolina : A Political History , 1663–1763 ( Chapel Hill , 1966 ) ; Robert M. Weir , “ ' The Harmony We Were Famous For ' : An ...
Why did freedmen, as soon as possible after the Civil War, withdraw from the biracial churches and establish black denominations? This book is essential reading for historians of religion, the South, and the Afro-American experience.
Jeremy Peckham shows us how we have become seduced by progress, embracing AI applications for their convenience, yet unwittingly diminishing our ability to be God's image-bearers and losing moral responsibility.
Take Frederick Winslow Taylor, founder of the famed system of “scientific management,” discussed in Chapter 3. No history of American management practices fails to linger over Taylor. Slide rule and stopwatch in hand, the Philadelphia ...
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