From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War; Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era. In Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia; 1750–1860; Watson W. Jennison explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia; arguing that long-term structural and demographic changes account for this transformation. Jennison traces the rise of rice cultivation and the plantation complex in low country Georgia in the mid-eighteenth century and charts the spread of slavery into the up country in the decades that followed. Cultivating Race examines the "cultivation" of race on two levels: race as a concept and reality that was created; and race as a distinct social order that emerged because of the specifics of crop cultivation. Using a variety of primary documents including newspapers; diaries; correspondence; and plantation records; Jennison offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of racism and racial ideology in the lower South.
#277414 in Books 2015-04-07Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.30 x .50 x 6.17l; .0 #File Name: 0813060834240 pages
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