South by southwest

By James David Miller

Subjects: Farmers, Social conditions, Slaves, Agriculture, History, Slaves, united states, social conditions, Social aspects of Agriculture, Migration, internal, Agriculture, social aspects, Plantation life, Southern states, race relations, Slaveholders, Southern states, social conditions, Race relations, Group identity, Internal Migration, Social aspects

Description: "In exploring what planter mobility reveals about planter identity and culture, South by Southwest blends analysis of both public and private responses to emigration and in so doing illuminates the ways in which elite southerners themselves understood the connections between emigration as private conduct and as a public phenomenon. In bringing together these two spheres of inquiry, Miller examines the diverse geographical, cultural, and intellectual meanings that elite southerners gave to their private and public journeys and what those meanings reveal about their broader attitudes regarding the people and places of slaveholding society."--BOOK JACKET.