Daily life of African American slaves in the Antebellum South /

Daily life of African American slaves in the Antebellum South /

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This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebel...

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Main Authors: Teed, Paul E. (Author), Teed, Melissa Ladd (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2020]
Series:Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Southern States > Social life and customs.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Economic Life
  • The Planters' Economy
  • The Agricultural Cycle
  • The Chesapeake and Tobacco
  • Cotton
  • Sugar
  • Rice
  • Slave Hiring
  • Reproduction and the "Fancy Trade"
  • Domestic Work
  • Independent Production
  • Document: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
  • 2. Domestic Life
  • The Slave Trade
  • Bonds of Affection
  • Courtship and Marriage
  • Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Parenting Enslaved Children Document: Henry Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851)
  • 3. Material Life
  • Food
  • Slave Quarters
  • Clothing
  • Documents: Interview with Tempie Cummins (1937) and Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States (1837)
  • 4. Religious Life
  • The African Spiritual Legacy
  • Christianity and Conversion
  • Origins of the Black Church
  • Religion and Daily Life
  • Religion and Rebellion
  • Document: Peter Randolph, Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (1855)
  • 5. Political Life
  • Paternalism: The Ideology of Plantation Government The Politics of Fieldwork
  • The Politics of the Big House
  • Disrupting the Plantation Hierarchy
  • Enslaved People and American Politics
  • Document: Louis Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (1896)
  • 6. Intellectual Life
  • Slavery and Literacy in the Antebellum South
  • The Meanings of Literacy
  • Slave Narratives: Ex-Slaves as Organic Intellectuals
  • Folk Medicine: Healing Knowledge in the Slave Community
  • Document: Thomas Jones, The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (1862)
  • 7. Recreational Life
  • Music
  • Dancing Holidays and Festivities
  • Children's Games
  • Storytelling
  • Document: William Wells Brown, My Southern Home (1880)
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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