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Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page iii Bathed in Blood Hunting and Mastery in the Old South Nicolas W. Proctor University Press of Virginia Charlottesville and London Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page i Bathed in Blood Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page ii Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page iii Bathed in Blood Hunting and Mastery in the Old South Nicolas W. Proctor University Press of Virginia Charlottesville and London Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page iv The University Press of Virginia © by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Proctor,Nicolas W.,‒ Bathed in blood :hunting and mastery in the Old South / Nicolas W.Proctor p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN ---(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN ---(pbk.:alk.paper) . Hunting—Philosophy—Southern States—History. . Hunting—Psychological aspects—Southern States—History. . Hunting—Social aspects—Southern States— History. I.Title. SK.P .—dc Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page v For my grandparents Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page vi Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page vii Contents List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1. Game,Landscape,and the Law 2. Hunters at Home and in the Field 3. Hunting and the Masculine Ideal 4. Finding Peers:The Criteria of Exclusion 5. The Community of the Hunt 6. Slavery,Paternalism,and the Hunt 7. Slave Perceptions of the Hunt Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index Bld FINAL 00 (i-xii) 11/9/01 6:17 AM Page viii Illustrations Killing a bear Partridge shooting Pothunters Boys hunting rabbit The ignominy of a greenhorn Hunting camp Osman Treed!
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