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Bathed in Blood : Hunting and Mastery in the Old South by Proctor, Nicolas W. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The hunt, like the church, courthouse, and family, played an integral role in southern society and culture during the antebellum era. Regardless of color or class, southern men hunted. Although hunters always recognized the tangible gains of their mission—meat, hides, furs—they also used the hunt to communicate ideas of gender, race, class, masculinity, and community. Hunting was very much a social activity, and for many white hunters it became a drama in which they could display their capacity for mastery over women, blacks, the natural world, and their own passions. Nicolas Proctor argues in Bathed in Blood that because slaves frequently accompanied white hunters into the field, whites often believed that hunting was a particularly effective venue for the demonstration of white supremacy. Slaves interpreted such interactions quite differently: they remained focused on the products of the hunt and considered the labor performed at the behest of their owners as an opportunity to improve their own condition. Whether acquired as a reward from a white hunter or as a result of their own independent—often illicit—efforts, game provided them with an important supplementary food source, a

Who reads Bathed in Blood : Hunting and Mastery in the Old South?

Author

Proctor, Nicolas W.

Publisher

University of Virginia Press; University Press of Virginia

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813920870

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Sports