Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860

From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era. In Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860, Watson W. Jennison explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, arguing that long-term structural and demographic changes account for this transformation. Jennison trace

Author: Watson W. Jennison
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 05/06/2015
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780813161259

About the Author

Watson W. Jennison, assistant professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has written for the Journal of Southern History and the North Carolina Historical Review. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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