Class Schedule
Week 2 (January 27-February 2)
Tuesday, January 29:
Deadline for Topic Selection for the Final
Paper
Topics of Discussion:
The Southern Economy
Southern Society
Readings:
Excerpts from Robert
Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American
Negro Slavery
Excerpts from Eugene
Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery
Statistics from the
U.S. Census of 1860
Table of U.S. Exports
for 1859
Slaves and Slaveholders
by State (1860)
"The Role of the
Plain Folk," from Frank Owsley, Plain Folk of the Old South
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
and Eugene Genovese, "The Yeomen and Planter Hegemony"
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 27-42
Thursday, January 31
Topics of Discussion:
The Character of Slavery:
War or Paternalism?
Frederick Douglass:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Readings:
Excerpts from Frederick
Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom
Eugene Genovese, "Paternalism
and Slave Culture"
Kenneth Stampp, "To
Make Them Stand in Fear"
Drew Gilpin Faust,
"Culture, Conflict, and Community: The Meaning of Power on an Ante-Bellum
Plantation"
Frederick Douglass,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Food
for Thought for Week 2
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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