South by southwest
Subtitle: planter emigration and identity in the slave South
By: James David Miller.
Contributors: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Series: The American South series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press ; [Dallas, Tex.] : Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Slaveholders -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Farmers -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Migration, Internal -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Group identity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Southern States -- Race relations.; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Description: "In exploring what planter mobility reveals about planter identity and culture, South by Southwest blends analysis of both public and private responses to emigration and in so doing illuminates the ways in which elite southerners themselves understood the connections between emigration as private conduct and as a public phenomenon.

In bringing together these two spheres of inquiry, Miller examines the diverse geographical, cultural, and intellectual meanings that elite southerners gave to their private and public journeys and what those meanings reveal about their broader attitudes regarding the people and places of slaveholding society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: When planters roamed the earth; title: The spirit of emigration; title: Public thoughts; title: Moving home; title: The land around us : southwestern sights; title: A household with a view : the social landscape; title: The planters' progress.