Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
- ISBN-10
- 0807846937
- ISBN-13
- 9780807846933
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 303
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Mark Michael Smith
Description
Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a pre-modern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.
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- 2000-11-09
- 328 pages
- Ebook
- Univ of North Carolina Press
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