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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2010.
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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.