Life and Labor in the Old South

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Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives.

• ISBN bar code 9781570036781 ξ1 registered September 24 2015
  
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A celebrated social history, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by a leading historian of the first half of the twentieth century. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) sought to include populations neglected in earlier scholarship as a means of underscoring the region's complex diversity and the importance of human interaction. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully written, Phillips' germinal account set the standard for his contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism, racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives.

^ John David Smith (2015). Life and Labor in the Old South ISBN 9781570036781 (revised Sep 2015)