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Slave Counterpoint : Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry /

"Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior life of Blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: Two infant slave societies
  • PART I: CONTOURS OF THE PLANTATION EXPERIENCE: Two plantation worlds
  • Material life
  • Fieldwork
  • Skilled work
  • PART II: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN WHITES AND BLACKS: Patriarchs, plain folks, and slaves
  • Economic exchanges between Whites and Blacks
  • Social transactions between Whites and Blacks
  • PART III: THE BLACK WORLD: African American societies
  • Family life
  • African American cultures
  • Coda: Two mature slave societies.