UID:
edocfu_9959242844602883
Format:
1 online resource (376 p.)
ISBN:
979-88-9313-127-7
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1-4696-0614-3
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0-8078-7760-3
Series Statement:
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Content:
In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed across the South, Kaye reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neighborhoods; 2 Intimate Relations; 3 Divisions of Labor; 4 Terrains of Struggle; 5 Beyond Neighborhood; 6 War and Emancipation; Epilogue; Appendix: Population, Land, and Labor; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-6179-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3103-4
Language:
English
