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!