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South by southwest : planter emigration and identity in the slave South

Miller, James David 1959- (Author). William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. (Added Author).

Summary: "In exploring what planter mobility reveals about planter identity and culture, South by Southwest blends analysis of both public and private responses to emigration and in so doing illuminates the ways in which elite southerners themselves understood the connections between emigration as private conduct and as a public phenomenon. In bringing together these two spheres of inquiry, Miller examines the diverse geographical, cultural, and intellectual meanings that elite southerners gave to their private and public journeys and what those meanings reveal about their broader attitudes regarding the people and places of slaveholding society."--Jacket.

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ISBN: 0813921171
ISBN: 9780813921174
Physical Description: print
xi, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press ; [Dallas, Tex.] : Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2002.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	When planters roamed the earth -- The spirit of emigration -- Public thoughts -- Moving home -- The land around us : southwestern sights -- A household with a view : the social landscape -- The planters' progress.