Article: Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality.(Review)

Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality. Edited by Thomas J. Durant Jr. and J. David Knottnerus. (Westport and London: Praeger Publishers, 1999. Pp. 256. $59.95.)

Relying heavily on sociological method to explore slavery and its legacy, the authors in this collection of 17 essays reveal the discipline's strengths and weaknesses as a tool for understanding the "peculiar institution." The editors theorize that a Southern "plantation society" emerged in America around 1650 and became the incubator for many twentieth-century patterns of race relations. The book seeks a greater understanding of what W. E. B. DuBois called "the problem of the ...

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