Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country

by StephanieMcCurry (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1995

  $259.68

  The book examines the yeomanry in the South Carolina Low Country before the Civil War. It focuses on the relationship between the yeomanry - the small farmers - and the planters, with whom they had strong ideological ties. The book deals with gender and class issues as well.

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $29.18

  In this study of the South Carolina Low Country, the author 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 they turned to their advantage.