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Sold down the river : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia /

In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carey, Anthony Gene
Autores Corporativos: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, Troup County Historical Society
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place
  • Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier
  • Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade
  • The work of slavery, the lineaments of life
  • "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power
  • Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship
  • Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity
  • Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.