Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790

From: South Carolina Historical Magazine | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790. By Robert Olwell. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 294. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

Robert Olwell's primary aim in Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 is to illuminate the complex interrelationship between "Kings & Slaves," colonialism and slavery, in one early American Slave society" (p. 3). Underpinning this purpose is the premise that as a "Slave Society" the domination of slaves "was always the main ...

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