[PDF.31bm] Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

[PDF.xi69] Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

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 | #1068363 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  1997-10-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x.82 x6.13l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||4 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| An original and accessible look at time and slavery.|By A Customer|This remarkable first book by Dr. Smith has already won two of the history profession's highest awards. The historical society named it the best book of history for 1997 and it shares the prestigious Avery O. Craven Award for the most original book on the Civil War era. Smith's observations of the slaves' adj| |This impressive book merits serious attention.|"Agricultural History"

"Mark M. SmithUs "Mastered by the Clock" is an interesting, lively study.|"Journal of American History""

"A sophisticated, imaginative addition to our understanding of

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arch...

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