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Chargement... The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (original 1982; édition 1998)par James Oakes (Auteur)
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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The dominant slaveholding culture grew out of the colonial experience in America and embraced the diversity of southern society. It took form in the rapidly expanding slave economy of the antebellum period and so produced a world view that equated upward mobility with westward migration. For unlike plantation life, physical movement, upward mobility, and social fluidity shaped the destinies of the vast majority of American slaveholders. (p. 68)
That is to say, the Southern man sought to accumulate capital in the form of human beings. The road to becoming a planter was open to men of talent and drive in the South just as the road to becoming a merchant-capitalist was open in the North. Martin van Buren's call for planters and plain republicans to face west makes sense. The North and the South had a great deal in common, save the peculiar institution. Both were bourgeois societies according to Oakes.