Description
Signed first edition of Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South by William Kauffman Scarborough.
Octavo, xviii, 521pp. Blue hardcover, blue cloth spine. Stated “first printing,” with a full number line on the copyright page. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, “autographed copy” sticker on the front panel.
Signed on the title page by the author.
A study of southern slaveholders who owned 250 or more enslaved people in the decade before the Civil War. This work examines their wealth, education, family networks, plantation management, political influence, and role in the antebellum South. Scarborough was a historian of the Old South and slavery, also known for The Overseer and his editorial work on The Diary of Edmund Ruffin.
