UID:
edocfu_9959227318602883
Format:
1 online resource (304 pages)
ISBN:
1-280-52278-X
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0-19-802022-8
Content:
Owens' fascinating 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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction-"". . . The Necessity of Bondage""; 1. Drawing the Color Line; 2. Into the Fields-Life, Disease, and Labor in the Old South; 3. Blackstrap Molasses and Cornbread-Diet and Its Impact on Behavior; 4. The Logic of Resistance; 5. The Household Slave; 6. The Black Slave Driver; 7. The Shadow of the Slave Quarters; 8. The Rhythm of Culture; 9. A Family Folk; 10. This Property Is Condemned; Manuscript Sources; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-502245-9
Language:
English
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