Cultivating Race [electronic resource] : The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 /
Jennison, Watson W.,1970-
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,
c2012.
From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era. In Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750--1860, Watson W. Jennison explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, arguing that long-term structural and demographic changes account for this transformation. Jennison traces the rise of rice cultivation and the plantation complex in low country Georgia in the mid-eigh
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From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era. In Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750--1860, Watson W. Jennison explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, arguing that long-term structural and demographic changes account for this transformation. Jennison traces the rise of rice cultivation and the plantation complex in low country Georgia in the mid-eigh
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From a common man's utopia to a planter's paradise, 1732-1776 -- The contagion of liberty, 1776-1804 -- The trans-Oconee republic, 1794 -- The state of Muskogee, 1799-1803 -- Borders of freedom, 1812-1818 -- Making Georgia black and white, 1818-1838 -- The democratization of slavery, 1820-1860 -- Rewriting Georgia's racial past, 1850s.
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Slavery
Slavery