Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-291) and index.
Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Time in Southern Slave Society
Chapter 1. Times Democratic: Clocks, Watches, Makers, and Owners, 1700-1900
Chapter 2. Taming Time's Pinions, Weaving Time's Web: Of Times Natural, Sacred, and Secular, 1700-1900
Chapter 3. Apostles of Progress, Agents of Time: Consolidating Time Consciousness in the South, 1750-1865
Chapter 4. Master Time, 1750-1865
Chapter 5. Time in African American Work and Culture
Chapter 6. New South, Old Time
Epilogue. Times Hegemonic: Standard Time
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
St. Michael's Church and clock, Charleston, South Carolina
Death, God, and St. Philip's clock, Charleston, South Carolina
Timing Life: A physician taking the pulse of his patient, ca. 1860s
A country couple, Donald McHood and Frances Hood, ca. 1860, with watch chain
Overseer's house and bell, Hampton Plantation, Maryland
Plantation bell at Thornhill, Alabama
Barn at Bremo Plantation, Fluvanna County, Virginia
A black slave driver with a watch chain, 1829
African American grave with clock, Sea Islands, South Carolina, 1933
Figures
1. Timepiece Ownership in Charleston District and Laurens County, South Carolina, 1739-1860
2. Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders in Charleston District and Laurens County, South Carolina, 1739-1860
Tables
1. Clock and Watch Ownership and Average Values of Both in Charleston District, 1739-1865, and Laurens County, South Carolina, 1788-1865
2. New York and South Carolina Timepiece Ownership Compared, 1739-1889
3. The Recommended Allocation of Time for Southern Children, 1853
4. Small and Yeoman Planters Owning Clocks and Watches in Laurens County, South Carolina, 1805-1843
A.1. Distribution of Timepiece Makers by Time and Region in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, 1666-1881
A.2. Geographical Mobility among Southern Timepiece Makers by Number of Separate Working Establishments during Working Life, 1666-1881
A.3. Regional and National Origins of Timepiece Makers Working in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, Combined, 1666-1881
A.4. Emigration of Timepiece Makers from South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, Combined, 1666-1881
A.5. Specialization among Timepiece Makers in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Combined, 1666-1881
A.6. Division of Labor in Timepiece-Making Establishments in Southern Colonies and States, 1666-1881
A.7. Clock and Watch Manufacturing in Southern States, 1810-1870
A.8. Clock and Watch Manufacturing in Northern and Middle States, 1810-1870
A.9. Number of Timepiece Repairers, Importers, Makers, and Those in Partnerships in South Carolina, 1699-1901
A.10. American Clock Makers by Region, 1650-1860s
A.11. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Charleston District, 1739-1744
A.12. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Charleston District, 1763-1767
A.13. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Charleston District, 1783-1787
A.14. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Charleston District, 1805-1810
A.15. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Charleston District, 1839-1844
A.16. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Charleston District, 1863-December 31, 1865
A.17. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership, Charleston District, January 1, 1866-1867
A.18. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership, Charleston District, 1883-1886
A.19. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Laurens County, South Carolina, 1788-1796
A.20. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Laurens County, South Carolina, 1805-1809
A.21. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Laurens County, South Carolina, 1839-1843
A.22. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Laurens County, South Carolina, 1863-December 31, 1865
A.23. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership among Slaveholders and Nonslaveholders, Laurens County, South Carolina, January 1, 1866-December 31, 1867
A.24. Wealth Levels and Timepiece Ownership, Laurens County, South Carolina, 1880-1889
A.25. Clock and Watch Ownership and Average Values of Both in Charleston District, 1866-1886, and Laurens County, South Carolina, 1866-1889