Slavery and the American South [[electronic resource] ] : essays and commentaries / / by Roger D. Abrahams ... [et al.] ; edited by Winthrop D. Jordan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451371203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003
• ISBN: 1-283-43440-7; 9786613434401; 1-60473-045-5; 1-4237-3194-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Collana: Chancellor's symposium series ; ; 2000
• Altri autori (Persone): Gordon-ReedAnnette; JordanWinthrop D
• Disciplina: 306.3/62/0975
• Soggetti: Slavery - Southern States - History; African Americans - Southern States - History; Electronic books.; Southern States History Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Logic and Experience: Thomas Jefferson's Life in the Law; Commentary: Peter S. Onuf; The Peculiar Fate of the Bourgeois Critique of Slavery; Commentary: Walter Johnson; Reflections on Law, Culture, and Slavery; Commentary: Laura F. Edwards; Rape in Black and White: Sexual Violence in the Testimony of Enslaved and Free Americans; Commentary: Jan Lewis; The Long History of a Low Place: Slavery on the South Carolina Coast, 1670-1870; Commentary: William Dusinberre; Paul Robeson and Richard Wright on the Arts and Slave Culture; Commentary: Roger D. Abrahams Notes; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: AMERICAN HISTORY -- African American --> In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970's it was the subject of ; the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi. Since then, scholarly interest in slavery has proliferated ever more widely. In fact, the editor of this retrospective volume states that since the 1970's ""the expansion has resulted in a corpus that has a huge number of components-scores...