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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: Domesticating slavery: The ideological formation of the master class in the Deep South, from colonization to 1837 Abstract: My dissertation explores the relationship between antebellum southern domestic ideals and the planters' development as ruling elite. Focusing on Georgia and South Carolina from 1663 to 1837, I examine how the slaveowners' family lives evolved in tandem with their stance within the public sphere of imperial and American politics. As the racial and sexual dynamic of the plantation household came to be predicated on the notion of organic reciprocity, masters in the Deep South formulated a class identity as benevolent stewards, supposedly motivated less by monetary considerations than by Christian regard for the welfare of their dependents. Curiously enough, however, this new mentality was inculcated through the very market structures that the proslavery ideologues ultimately denounced as the bane of moral society. By uncovering the actual cultural dynamic by which the slaveowners' identity was established, I attempt to reconcile paternalistic and capitalistic interpretations of planter ideology--interpretations that have divided the last generation of antebellum southern historians into opposing camps. |
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