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Hunting and Fishing in the New South:

Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780801890239
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Scott E. Giltner
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Local release date: 15/12/2008
Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]

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This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post--Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy -- escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners -- blacks included -- since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South's labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment -- how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner's thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen's recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.

Introduction: Hunting, Fishing, and Freedom1. ""You Can't Starve a Negro"": Hunting and Fishing and African Americans' Subsistence in the Post-Emancipation South2. ""The Pot-Hunting Son of Ham"": White Sportsmen's Objections to African Americans' Hunting and Fishing3. ""The Art of Serving Is with Them Innate"": African Americans and the Work of Southern Hunting and Fishing4. ""With the Due Subordination of Master and Servant Preserved"": Race and Sporting Tourism in the Post-Emancipation South5. ""When He Should Be between the Plow Handles"": Sportsmen, Landowners, Legislators, and the Assault on African Americans' Hunting and FishingConclusion: Contradiction and Continuity in the Southern Sporting FieldAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War