Courtship and love among the enslaved in North Carolina [[electronic resource] /] / Rebecca J. Fraser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782838803321
• Autore: Fraser Rebecca J. <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-48590-3; 9786612485909; 1-60473-312-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (148 p.)
• Collana: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
• Disciplina: 306.73/4086250975609034
• Soggetti: Enslaved persons - North Carolina - Social life and customs - 19th century; Love - North Carolina - History - 19th century; Courtship - North Carolina - History - 19th century; Enslaved persons - North Carolina; Couples - North Carolina; African Americans - North Carolina - Social life and customs - 19th century; African Americans - North Carolina; Plantation life - North Carolina - History - 19th century; North Carolina Social life and customs 19th century; North Carolina Biography
• 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 (p. 123-132) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Love Seems with Them More to be an Eager Desire": Racialized Stereotypes in the Slaveholding South; 2 Asking Master Mack to Court: Competing Spheres of Influence; 3 Getting Out to Play and Courting All They Pleased: The Social and Temporal Geographies of Enslaved Courtship; 4 Taking a Whipping for Lily: Courtship as a Narrative of Resistance; 5 A Red Satin Ribbon Tied around My Finger: The Meaning of the Wedding Ceremony; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Through an examination of various couples who were forced to live in ; slavery, Rebecca J. Fraser argues that slaves found ways to conduct successful courting relationships. In its focus on the processes of courtship among the enslaved, this study offers further insight into the meanings that structured intimate lives. Establishing their courtships, often across plantations, the enslaved men and women of antebellum North Carolina worked within and around the slave system to create and maintain meaningful personal relationships that were both of and apart from the world of the plantation. They cl