The quarters and the fields: slave families in the non-cotton South
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Main Author: Pargas, Damian Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville University Press of Florida c2010
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 259 p.)
ISBN:0813035147
0813036585
9780813035147
9780813036588

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