Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers - Shearer Davis Bowman - Google Books

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Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.S. and the proprietors of manorial estates in the provinces of Prussian East Elbia. Masters…