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Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
Author(s): William Kauffman Scarborough (Author)
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date: 4 Nov. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 536 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807128821
- ISBN-13: 9780807128824
Book Description
In this volume, William Kauffman Scarborough unveils new data about one of the most powerful groups in American history: the 340 wealthiest aristocratic planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860.
