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"To train them to habits of industry and usefulness" : molding the poor children of antebellum Savannah
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Lockley, Tim (2009) "To train them to habits of industry and usefulness" : molding the poor children of antebellum Savannah. In: Children bound to labor : the pauper apprentice system in early America. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., pp. 133-148. ISBN 0801446244
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Abstract
To suggest that antebellum elite conceived of benevolence as a tool that would help to control the behaviour of the poor no longer raises eyebrows among historians of antebellum reform movements. The debate sparked by the work of Clifford Griffin in the 1950s and continued by historians such as Lois Banner and Lawrence Kohl seems to have run out of steam. Griffin, and others, argued that "social control" was the main motivating force behind nineteenth-century benevolence as elites sought to check poor people's "rampant propensities to low and vicious indulgence."
| Item Type: | Book Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F001 United States local history H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies > Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Savannah (Ga.) -- History -- 18th century, Savannah (Ga.) -- History -- 19th century, Poor -- Services for -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History, Poor children, White -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History, Social reformers -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Place of Publication: | Ithaca, N.Y. |
| ISBN: | 0801446244 |
| Book Title: | Children bound to labor : the pauper apprentice system in early America |
| Editor: | Murray, John E., 1959- and Herndon, Ruth Wallis |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Page Range: | pp. 133-148 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/34614 |
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