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The Sweetness of Life - Southern Planters at Home (Hardcover)
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The Sweetness of Life - Southern Planters at Home (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the
antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the
late Eugene Genovese (1930-2012), with an introduction and epilogue
by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a penetrating
study of slaveholders and their families in both intimate and
domestic settings: at home; attending the theatre; going on
vacations to spas and springs; throwing parties; hunting; gambling;
drinking and entertaining guests, completing a comprehensive
portrait of the slaveholders and the world that they built with
slaves. Genovese subtly but powerfully demonstrates how much
politics, economics, and religion shaped, informed, and made
possible these leisure activities. A fascinating investigation of a
little-studied aspect of planter life, The Sweetness of Life
broadens our understanding of the world that the slaveholders and
their slaves made; a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.
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