Masters of Small Worlds

by: Stephanie McCurry

Price : 95.00 E£

Genre : History

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 regions powerful planters