Born in bondage: growing up enslaved in the antebellum South

"Provides an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community." -...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Marie Jenkins (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2000
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Summary:"Provides an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community." -- Jacket.
Physical Description:IX, 272 S., [8] Bl. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0674001621

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