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Coles Hunting and Fishing the New South: Black Labor White Leisure after Civil War at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the postāCivil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacyāescaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southernersāblacks includedāsince colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the Southās labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environmentāhow blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltnerās thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmenās recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.
This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the postāCivil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacyāescaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southernersāblacks includedāsince colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the Southās labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environmentāhow blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltnerās thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmenās recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.
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