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Mastered by the Clock : Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Overview
Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a pre-modern, 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. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.
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- ISBN-13: 9780807846933
- ISBN-10: 0807846937
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: October 1997
- Dimensions: 9.35 x 6.12 x 0.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
- Page Count: 328
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