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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837. By Jeffrey Robert Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2490-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4776-3.)

Jeffrey Robert Young's engaging and well-researched study explores the rise of a sophisticated ideology of slave ownership among the planter elite in two Old South states. By "domesticating" slavery, Young argues, the planter class created a world view that justified human bondage, not only as necessary for controlling slaves but also as conferring honor on the owners. Thus the planters, arming themselves against "outsiders" who might threaten slavery, also embraced a powerful self-image of benign mastery. . . .

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