Mastered by the clock
Subtitle: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South
By: Mark M. Smith.
Series: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.; Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Time -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.; Time -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Southern States -- Social conditions.
Description: Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-291) and index.