Masters of the Big House - Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South

Informationen zum Autor William Kauffman Scarborough, professor emeritus of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, is the author of The Overseer and The Allstons of Chicora Wood and editor of the three-volume The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Klappentext This eagerly awaited masterwork by one of the most important scholars of southern history profiles the richest slaveholders of the South. Zusammenfassung William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history - the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860.

Product details

• Authors: William Kauffman Scarborough
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780807131558
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3155-8
• No. of pages: 521
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Jules and Frances Landry Award
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous