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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Pargas, Damian Alan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Families.
Slavernij.
Slaven (arbeid)
Social conditions.
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slaves > Family relationships.
Slavery.
Plantation life.
Geography > Social aspects.
Agriculture > Social aspects.
African American families > Social conditions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Geographie > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Agriculture > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Familles noires americaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Esclaves > Relations familiales > États-Unis (Sud)
Geography > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Agriculture > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
African American families > Southern States > Social conditions > History.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Slaves > Southern States > Social conditions.
Slaves > Family relationships > Southern States.
Zuidelijke staten.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Southern States > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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