Honor & slavery : lies, duels, noses, masks, dressing as a woman, gifts, strangers, humanitarianism, death, slave rebellions, the proslavery argument, baseball, hunting, and gambling in the Old South /
"The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. As Kenneth Greenberg so skillfully demonstrates, the language of honor embraced a co...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 The nose, the lie, and the duel
- 2 Masks and slavery
- 3 Gifts, strangers, duels, and humanitarianism
- 4 Death
- 5 Baseball, hunting, and gambling.