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The Quarters and the Fields : Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South /

Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the 19th-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types of masters and cro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pargas, Damian Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families
  • Three slave societies of the non-cotton South
  • The nature of agricultural labor
  • Family contact during working hours
  • Family-based internal economies
  • Slaveholding across time and space
  • Marriage strategies and family formation
  • Forced separation
  • Weathering different storms.