Life in Black and White : Family and Community in the Slave South.
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The White Community: Patterns of Settlement, Development, and Conflict; 2. Gender Convention and Courtship; 3. Marriage, for Better or for Worse; 4. Parenting; 5. Broken Vows and "Notorious" Endings: Divorce; 6. The Nature of Loudoun Slavery; 7. Slave Family Structure; 8. Slave Marriage and Family Relations; 9. Free Blacks; 10. Free Black Family and Household Economy; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index.