Jeffrey Robert Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Robert Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG J R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829
Christopher Michael Curtis. Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion
Christopher Michael Curtis's engaging monograph traces the complicated relationship between citizenship and land ownership in Virginia from the eighteenth century through the antebellum era. Delving into the contested process through which Virginia's legal system redefined the concept of the “freehold,” Curtis uncovers the struggle of elite Virginians to steer their republican political agenda through the pitfalls created by British tyranny and t…
Proslavery Ideology
This article shows how the same fundamental questions raised by proslavery thought have consistently confronted not only modern scholars but also the very historical actors who battled over slavery's fate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It discusses early proslavery thought in the Americas, proslavery thought in the age of revolution, the role of proslavery thought in sectional conflict and postbellum sectional reconciliation, and the…
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (review)
Reviewed by: Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry Jeffrey Robert Young Peter McCandless. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxi + 297 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-107-00415-3). Peter McCandless, whose previous work placed mental illness in South Carolina in a nuanced historical context, has turned his attention to disease in the Carolina lowcountry from the colon…
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829
In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South, from Maryland to Georgia. tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses of human bondage had a history in southern thought that long predated the later antebellum era traditionally associated with…
Slavery and the American South
Domesticating Slavery
Rice Gold
Drawing from a wealth of information, particularly from primary sources such as diaries, letters, plantation records, etc., the author has recreated the story of James Hamilton Couper and his times into an exciting, interesting, and readable account. The work begins with an introductory chapter. The Georgia Coast, a land of sluggish rivers, murkey blackwater swamps, and studded with a string of islands, is the home of a special breed of people. T…
Debating Slavery
Author's preface 1. The contours of the debate 2. Slaveholders and plantations 3. Yeoman and non-slave-owners 4. Slaves 5. The profitability of slavery as a business 6. The profitability of slavery as a system 7. New directions, toward consensus Bibliography
Domesticating Slavery
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 336. $49.95.) Domesticating Slavery is a study born of frustration with what the author considers the shortcomings of an older, binary framework and the failure of more recent work to dissolve and redirect it. In his introduction, Jeffrey Robert Young despairs of the interpreta…
Domesticating Slavery
Journal Article Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2490-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4776-3.) Get access Steven Stowe Steven Stowe Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
Domesticating Slavery
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 336. $49.95.) Domesticating Slavery is a study born of frustration with what the author considers the shortcomings of an older, binary framework and the failure of more recent work to dissolve and redirect it. In his introduction, Jeffrey Robert Young despairs of the interpreta…
Debating Slavery
Author's preface 1. The contours of the debate 2. Slaveholders and plantations 3. Yeoman and non-slave-owners 4. Slaves 5. The profitability of slavery as a business 6. The profitability of slavery as a system 7. New directions, toward consensus Bibliography
Slavery and the American South
Domesticating Slavery
Journal Article Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2490-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4776-3.) Get access Steven Stowe Steven Stowe Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
Domesticating Slavery
Rice Gold
Drawing from a wealth of information, particularly from primary sources such as diaries, letters, plantation records, etc., the author has recreated the story of James Hamilton Couper and his times into an exciting, interesting, and readable account. The work begins with an introductory chapter. The Georgia Coast, a land of sluggish rivers, murkey blackwater swamps, and studded with a string of islands, is the home of a special breed of people. T…
Debating Slavery
Author's preface 1. The contours of the debate 2. Slaveholders and plantations 3. Yeoman and non-slave-owners 4. Slaves 5. The profitability of slavery as a business 6. The profitability of slavery as a system 7. New directions, toward consensus Bibliography
Domesticating Slavery
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 336. $49.95.) Domesticating Slavery is a study born of frustration with what the author considers the shortcomings of an older, binary framework and the failure of more recent work to dissolve and redirect it. In his introduction, Jeffrey Robert Young despairs of the interpreta…
Slavery and the American South
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829
In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South, from Maryland to Georgia. tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses of human bondage had a history in southern thought that long predated the later antebellum era traditionally associated with…
Proslavery Ideology
This article shows how the same fundamental questions raised by proslavery thought have consistently confronted not only modern scholars but also the very historical actors who battled over slavery's fate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It discusses early proslavery thought in the Americas, proslavery thought in the age of revolution, the role of proslavery thought in sectional conflict and postbellum sectional reconciliation, and the…
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (review)
Reviewed by: Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry Jeffrey Robert Young Peter McCandless. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxi + 297 pp. Ill. $90.00 (978-1-107-00415-3). Peter McCandless, whose previous work placed mental illness in South Carolina in a nuanced historical context, has turned his attention to disease in the Carolina lowcountry from the colon…
Christopher Michael Curtis. Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion
Christopher Michael Curtis's engaging monograph traces the complicated relationship between citizenship and land ownership in Virginia from the eighteenth century through the antebellum era. Delving into the contested process through which Virginia's legal system redefined the concept of the “freehold,” Curtis uncovers the struggle of elite Virginians to steer their republican political agenda through the pitfalls created by British tyranny and t…
Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829
History (10 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Class (philosophy (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)