A weary land : slavery on the ground in Arkansas /

"In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpses of enslaved life on the South's western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jones, Kelly Houston (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
Collection:Early American places.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Slavery > Arkansas > History.
Enslaved persons > Arkansas > Social conditions.
African Americans > Arkansas > History.
Esclaves > Arkansas > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > Arkansas > Histoire.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Manners and customs.
African Americans.
Slavery.
Arkansas > History > 19th century.
Arkansas > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Arkansas > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Arkansas > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Arkansas.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The morass
  • Domains
  • Alluvial empires
  • Flesh and fiber
  • The material of survival
  • Battlegrounds
  • Conclusion.

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