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The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

By: Robert Francis Withers Allston

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The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

By: Robert Francis Withers Allston

The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston makes available for a new generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolinas most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. Often cited by historians, Robert F.W. Allstons letters, speeches, receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War. As Daniel C. Littlefield underscores in his introduction to the new edition, these papers are significant not only because of Allstons position at the apex of planter society but also because his views represented those of the rice planter elite.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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Authoritarianism in the American South

Beliefs That Led to Slavery and Civil War, 1606-1861

By: Robert L. Dipboye

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Beliefs That Led to Slavery and Civil War, 1606-1861

By: Robert L. Dipboye

The evidence is overwhelming that the protection and expansion of slavery was a primary reason for the secession of the Confederate states and the Civil War that followed. While slavery undoubtedly was important, a more fundamental cause was a belief system held in common among the ruling elite. The antebellum South was not only a slave society but also an authoritarian society, shaped by a view of the world as dangerous/competitive, an us vs. them mentality, a dominance/obedience orientation, and closed-mindedness. The authoritarianism of the founding elites, in combination with the travails they experienced on the Southern frontiers, led to oppression, racism, and corruptions in thinking, emotion, and behavior. It also perpetuated the practice of slavery, sparked the Civil War, and left a difficult legacy. In a unique application of contemporary social psychological theory and research to the interpretation of history, this book traces the evolution of Southern authoritarianism from the founding of Virginia in 1606 to the secession of the Confederate states in 1861. In doing so, it examines how belief systems become embedded in a society, act as both consequences and causes of historical events, and have effects that reverberate far into the future.

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McFarland

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1476695644

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The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

Authoritarianism in the American South

Authoritarianism in the American South

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