Slavery in Alabama /
Since its initial publication in 1950, this book remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
1994, 1950.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss; Preface; 1. In the Colonial and Territorial Periods; 2. Plantation and Planters; 3. The Work of the Plantation: Overseer and Slave; 4. The Slave and the Plantation; 5. Traffic in Slaves; 6. Hired Slave and Town Slave; 7. The Legal Status of the Slave; 8. Crimes and Punishments of Slaves; 9. Runaways; 10. The Church and the Slave; 11. The Defense of Slavery; 12. The Free Negro in Alabama Before 1865; Bibliography; Index