Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790
By Robert Olwell.
Description
The slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the early-nineteenth-century United States. In this engaging study of a colonial older South, Robert Olwell analyzes the structures and internal dynamics of a world in which both masters and slaves were also imperial subjects. While slavery was peculiar within a democratic republic, it was an integral and seldom questioned part of the eighteenth-century British empire.Olwell examines the complex relations among masters, slaves, metropolitan institutions, officials, and ideas in the South Caro...
ISBN(s)
080148491X, 9780801484919
