Slave against Slave : Plantation Violence in the Old South /

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that interracial black violence did not reach high levels until...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Forret, Jeff, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Violence.
Social conditions.
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Plantation life.
Community life.
Communaute > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Violence > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Community life > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Agent (Philosophy) > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Violence > Southern States > History.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Slaves > Southern States > Social conditions.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 18e siecle.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Violence, community, and agency in the slave South
  • Origins, prevalence, and patterns
  • Slaves, masters, church, and the civil law of slavery
  • Intraracial slave homicide and the criminal law of slavery
  • Violence at work and play
  • Violence and the slave economy
  • Violence in the creation, maintenance, and destruction of slave unions
  • Honor, violence, and enslaved masculinity
  • Honor, violence, and enslaved femininity
  • Epilogue: "Black-on-black violence" in historical perspective
  • Appendix: Intraracial slave homicides in Virginia, 1777-1864.

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