Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South
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
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1997
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xx, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780807823446, 9780807846933, 9780807846681, 0807823449, 0807846937, 0807846686
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