Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 /
American history -- African American studies -- & In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebe...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- French slavery in colonial Natchez
- Resettlement of the Natchez region
- The cotton frontier of territorial Mississippi
- Slaves in the western migration
- Defining the boundaries of enslavement
- The transformation of Mississippi
- Conclusion: Mississippi, the closed society.