McCurry, Stephanie,

Masters of small worlds : yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country / [print] Stephanie McCurry. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)1995. - xx, 320 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Boundaries of Power -- Producing Independence -- Unequal Masters -- "Like a Great Family": Nullification Revivals and the Making of Popular Religion in the Low Country -- "Households of Faith": Gender, Power, and Proslavery Christianity -- Slavery, Gender, and the "Social Fabrick" -- Manly Resistance, Slavish Submission, and the Political Culture of the Low Country -- "To Repel the Invaders at the Threshold".



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GB95-62110


Political culture--History--South Carolina--19th century.
Social classes--History--South Carolina--19th century.
Sex role--History--South Carolina--19th century.
Slavery--History--South Carolina--19th century.

F273.M478.M378 1995