Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South by Mark M. Smith

Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South

Mark M. Smith

328 pages paperback 1997

2 editions

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Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, ...

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