Lines in the Sand - Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860

Informationen zum Autor Timothy James Lockley is a lecturer in American history at the University of Warwick. Klappentext Dominated politically and economically by a planter elite and outnumbered by slaves! lowcountry poor whites in antebellum Georgia often found that their closest allies were on the opposite side of the color line. Timothy James Lockley looks at evidence from travel accounts! slave narratives! newspapers! and court documents to reveal that poor whites and blacks formed numerous kinds of relationships in such pursuits as work! recreation! trade! religion! even crime. Sometimes they came together out of mutual affection! sometimes for mutual advantage--but always in spite of the disapproving authority of the planter class. Zusammenfassung Lockley’s nuanced look at the interaction between nonslaveholding whites and African Americans in lowcountry Georgia from the introduction of slavery in the state to the beginning of the Civil War. Lockley has synthesized an impressive amount of material to create a rich social history that illuminates the lives of both blacks and whites.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Lockley, Timothy James Lockley
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2003
• EAN: 9780820325972
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2597-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology