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Owens' study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slave...

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Main Author: Owens, Leslie Howard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Owens' study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.
Physical Description:1 online resource (291 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198020226
0198020228

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