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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political
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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country Paperback - 1997

by McCurry, Stephanie

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In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which these small-holdings landowners achieved status from the region's powerful planters.

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  • Title Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
  • Author McCurry, Stephanie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Date 1997-09-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z1-C-064-00511
  • ISBN 9780195117950 / 0195117956
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.12 x 0.97 in (23.37 x 15.54 x 2.46 cm)
  • Reading level 1510
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94016869
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.703

From the publisher

In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession.

By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.

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Sometime in the fall of 1855 near Adams Run in Colleton District, Ralph Elliott, the son of a very wealthy planter, and a yeoman neighbor named Price came to blows over Price's relationship to the slaves on Elliott's PonPon plantation.

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About the author

Stephanie McCurry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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