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In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, 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 as a category of analysis, the book shows how the
fateful political choices made by the lowcountry yeomanry were rooted in
the politics of the household: in the customary relations of power
male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents,
whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives,
practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the
yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and ultimately, their ardent
embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the
drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile
society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a
wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small
worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina
Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.
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