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title	:	Mastered By the Clock : Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
author	:	Smith, Mark M.
publisher	:	University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807823449
print isbn13	:	9780807823446
ebook isbn13	:	9780807864579
language	:	English
subject	Slavery--Southern States--History--18th century, Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century, Time--Social aspects--Southern States--History--18th century, Time--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century, Plantation life--Southern States-
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	E446.S65 1997eb
ddc	:	975/.00496
subject	:	Slavery--Southern States--History--18th century, Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century, Time--Social aspects--Southern States--History--18th century, Time--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century, Plantation life--Southern States-

Page iii Mastered by the Clock Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South Mark M. Smith The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Page iv 1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Material from my article, "Time, Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in the Ante-Bellum American South," Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies 150 (February 1996): 14268, is used by permission from The Past and Present Society, Oxford, England. A version of Chapter 1 first appeared as "Counting Clocks, Owning Time: Detailing and Interpreting Clock and Watch Ownership in the Antebellum South, 17391865" Time and Society: An International Interdisciplinary Journal 3 (October 1994): 32140; used by permission of SAGE Publications. 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968 Mastered by the clock: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith. p. cm.-(Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8078-2344-9 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4693-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. SlaverySouthern StatesHistory18th century. 2. SlaverySouthern States History19th century. 3. TimeSocial aspectsSouthern StatesHistory18th century. 4. TimeSocial aspects Southern StatesHistory19th century. 5. Plantation lifeSouthern States History18th century. 6. Plantation life Southern StatesHistory19th century. 7. Southern StatesSocial conditions. I. Title. II. Series. E446.S65 1997 97-7045 975'.00496dc21 CIP

Page v FOR MARGARET J. SMITH AND MICHAEL J. LEA; IN MEMORY OF E. F. GOODCHILD

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Time in Southern Slave Society 1 1 Times Democratic: Clocks, Watches, Makers, and Owners, 17001900 17 2 Taming Time's Pinions, Weaving Time's Web: Of Times Natural, Sacred, and Secular, 17001900 39 3 Apostles of Progress, Agents of Time: Consolidating Time Consciousness in the South, 17501865 69 4 Master Time, 17501865 93 5 Time in African American Work and Culture 129 6 New South, Old Time 153 Epilogue. Times Hegemonic: Standard Time 177 Appendix 185 Notes 211 Bibliography 259 Index 293

Page ix Illustrations St. Michael's Church and clock, Charleston, South Carolina 20 Death, God, and St. Philip's clock, Charleston, South Carolina 50 Timing lifea physician taking the pulse of his patient, ca. 1860s 53 A country couple, Donald McHood and Frances Hood, ca. 1860, with watch chain 64 Overseer's house and bell, Hampton Plantation, Maryland 114 Plantation bell at Thornhill, Alabama 115 Barn at Bremo Plantation, Fluvanna County, Virginia 116 A black slave driver with a watch chain, 1829

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