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Article: Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. (Book Reviews and Notes).
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- December 1, 2001
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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv + 336 pp. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.
Young's primary interest is the emergence of proslavery ideology in two southern states. His argument is that during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the southern master class slowly moved toward consensus on an ideology that Young calls "corporate individualism." The ideology combined an organic ideal of society, which emphasized the subordination of individual freedom to the needs of the corporate social whole, with a defense of the ...