Cargando…

Sold Down the River : Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carey, Anthony Gene
Autores Corporativos: Troup County Historical Society, Historic Chattahoochee Commission
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place
  • Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier
  • Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade
  • The work of slavery, the lineaments of life
  • "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power
  • Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship
  • Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity
  • Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.