Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country Home Care ISBN13: 9780201550955 ISBN10: 0201550954 Material

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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country Home Care ISBN13: 9780201550955 ISBN10: 0201550954 MaterialIn this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender