Bathed in Blood
Hunting and Mastery in the Old South
Publication Year: 2002
Published by: University of Virginia Press
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
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pp. vii-
List of Illustrations
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pp. viii-
Acknowledgments
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pp. ix-xi
First I would like to thank the earnest white-haired gentleman on the upstairs porch of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, who misheard me. He and I spent the better part of an afternoon discussing various kinds of hives and flowers...
Introduction
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pp. 1-4
The hunt, like the church, courthouse, and family, played an integral role in the society and culture of the Old South. Regardless of color or class, southern men hunted; they shot, trapped, and ran their dogs after a great variety of animals...
Chapter 1: Game, Landscape, and the Law
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pp. 5-36
One of the central motifs of hunting in the South is the hunter’s quest for plentiful game. Some of the earliest European settlers along the southeastern coast of North America worried that the supply of desirable game in the area was already diminishing...
Chapter 2: Hunters at Home and in the Field
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pp. 37-60
In the early eighteenth century, most of those who hunted did so out of necessity. Shooting and trapping game for provisions and exchange helped men fulfill their role as providers, but as settlement expanded, technology improved, and the number...
Chapter 3: Hunting and the Masculine Ideal
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pp. 61-75
Set apart from the everyday world but still intimately associated with it, the hunt created a stage for the performance of an evocative drama of white manhood. Thus it provided fertile ground for antebellum authors to create a varied but coherent...
Chapter 4: Finding Peers: The Criteria of Exclusion
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pp. 76-98
Hunters, looking for comradeship and validation of their masculinity, often hunted in groups. Hunting companions provided an appreciative audience for a hunter’s demonstration of prowess, self-control, and mastery. Hunters, therefore...
Chapter 5: The Community of the Hunt
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pp. 99-118
When white hunters chose their companions from the pool of possible associates, they created and refined their personal image of masculinity.When hunters banded together into a fraternity, they combined these individual notions...
Chapter 6: Slavery, Paternalism, and the Hunt
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pp. 119-143
Slaves and slaveholders hunted together throughout the antebellum South. Unlike the adventures of Huck and Jim, these hunts rarely created an atmosphere of egalitarian camaraderie, nor did the usual absence of women create the opportunity...
Chapter 7: Slave Perceptions of the Hunt
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pp. 144-168
When whites portrayed huntsmen in their hunting narratives, they sought to strengthen the association between themselves and a masculine ideal grounded in white supremacy and black dependence. Slaves saw things quite differently...
Epilogue
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pp. 169-173
Once the Civil War began, southern hunters carried on as best they could.Whether as soldiers or noncombatants, they continued taking the field throughout the war. The promise of fresh meat, marketable hides, and momentary distraction...
Notes
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pp. 175-196
Selected Bibliography
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pp. 197-215
Index
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pp. 217-220
E-ISBN-13: 9780813921747
E-ISBN-10: 0813921740
Print-ISBN-13: 9780813920870
Print-ISBN-10: 0813920876
Page Count: 220
Illustrations: 8 b&w illus.
Publication Year: 2002
