A celebrated social history, ""Life and Labor in the Old South""
(1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and
reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum
South by a leading historian of the first half of the twentieth
century. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934) sought to include
populations neglected in earlier scholarship as a means of
underscoring the region's complex diversity and the importance of
human interaction. Deeply researched in primary sources, carefully
focused on social and economic facets of slavery, and gracefully
written, Phillips' germinal account set the standard for his
contemporaries. Simultaneously the work is rife with elitism,
racism, and reliance on sources that privilege white perspectives.
Such contradictions between its content and viewpoint have earned
this study its place at the forefront of texts in the
historiography of the antebellum South and African American
slavery. This edition includes a new introduction by John David
Smith that frames the volume within Progressive Era scholarship,
chronicles its critical reception, and highlights its influence on
contemporary historical debates.
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