Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia
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Overview
One essay looks at the subordinating effects of paternalism on women in the Old South—slave, free black, and white—and the coping strategies available to each group. Another focuses on the Knights of Labor union in Augusta. With their trappings of chivalry, the Knights are viewed as a response by Augusta's white male millworkers to the emasculating "maternalism" to which they were subjected by their own wives and daughters and those of mill owners and managers. Millworkers are also the topic of a study of mission work in their communities, a study that gauges the extent to which religious outreach by elites was a means of social control rather than an outpouring of genuine concern for worker welfare. Other essays discuss Augusta's "aristocracy of color," who had to endure the same effronteries of segregation as the city's poorest blacks; the role of interracial cooperation in the founding of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church as a denomination, and of Augusta's historic Trinity CME Church; and William Jefferson White, an African American minister, newspaper editor, and founder of Morehouse College.
The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780820340944 |
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Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
Publication date: | 02/28/2012 |
Pages: | 256 |
Product dimensions: | 14.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
KENT ANDERSON LESLIE is an assistant professor of women's studies at Oglethorpe University.
LEEANN WHITES is the editor of Ohio Valley History and professor emerita of history at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender (Georgia) and Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South and coeditor of Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War and Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence.
MICHELE GILLESPIE is a professor of history and dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University. She is also author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860 (Georgia) and co-editor of ten books, including North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia).
EDWARD J. CASHIN (1927-2007) was professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History at Augusta State University. His books include The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier (Georgia), which won the 1990 Fraunces Tavern Book Award of the American Revolution Round Table, and Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier (Georgia), which won the 1992 Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award of the Georgia Historical Society.
GLENN T. ESKEW is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle, editor of Labor in the Modern South, and coeditor of Paternalism in a Southern City.
Edward J. Cashin (Editor)
EDWARD J. CASHIN (1927-2007) was professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History at Augusta State University. His books include The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier (Georgia), which won the 1990 Fraunces Tavern Book Award of the American Revolution Round Table, and Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier (Georgia), which won the 1992 Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award of the Georgia Historical Society.
Glenn T. Eskew (Editor)
GLENN T. ESKEW is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle, editor of Labor in the Modern South, and coeditor of Paternalism in a Southern City.
Table of Contents
Foreword Lee Ann Caldwell vii
Introduction ix
Paternalism in Augusta: The Impact of the Plantation Ethic upon an Urban Society Edward J. Cashin 1
From Household to Market-Black and White Women at Work in Augusta, 1790-1825 Michele Gillespie 42
Paternalism and Protest in Augusta's Cotton Mills: What's Gender Got to Do with It? Leeann Whites 68
Paternalism among Augusta's Methodists: Black, White, and Colored Glenn T. Eskew 85
No Middle Ground: Elite African Americans in Augusta and the Coming of Jim Crow Kent Anderson Leslie 110
Standing on a Volcano: The Leadership of William Jefferson White Bobby J. Donaldson 135
Rolling Religion down the Hill: Millworkers and Churches in Augusta Julia Walsh 177
Bibliography 211
The Contributors 235
Index 237