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

by Mark M. Smith

Book Overview

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, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846937
• ISBN13: 9780807846933
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"