Masters of Small Worlds
Subtitle: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 18, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780195117950
First sentence: Sometime in the fall of 1855 near Adams Run in Colleton District, Ralph Elliott, the son of a very wealthy planter, and a yeoman neighbor named Price came to blows over Price's relationship to the slaves on Elliott's PonPon plantation.