Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith.
Material type: TextSeries: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studiesPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: [First edition]Description: xx, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0807823449
- 9780807823446
- 0807846937
- 9780807846933
- 0807846686
- 9780807846681
- 1700-1899
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Time -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Time -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation life
- Slavery
- Social conditions
- Time -- Social aspects
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Southern States
- Sociology
- USA
- South
- Regional time
- Smith, Mark M
- Timekeeper (general)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-291) and index.
Time in southern slave society -- Times democratic : clocks, watches, makers, and owners, 1700-1900 -- Taming time's pinions, weaving time's web : of times natural, sacred, and secular, 1700-1900 -- Apostles of progress, agents of time : consolidating time consciousness in the south, 1750-1865 -- Master time, 1750-1865 -- Time in African American work and culture -- New south, old time -- Times hegemonic : standard time.
This 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 promodern, 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.
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Social aspects of time in 18th century US south
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