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Life and Labor in the Old South

Life and Labor in the Old South

Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
Smith, John David

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Series: Southern Classics

General World HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 1570036780
ISBN13: 9781570036781
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: May 1 2007
Pages: 375
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.46 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by the leading historian of African American slavery of the first half of the twentieth century. Life and Labor in the Old South represents both the strengths and weaknesses of first-rate scholarship by whites on the topics of antebellum African and African American slavery during the Jim Crow era. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully written, Phillips's germinal account set the standard for his contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives. Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned Life and Labor in the Old South its place at the forefront of texts in the historiography of the antebellum South and African American slavery. The book is both a work of high scholarship and an example of the power of unexamined prejudices to affect such a work.

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