Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South

(Part of the Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies Series)

by Mark M. Smith

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807846937

ISBN13:9780807846933

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South

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