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Kaye Anthony E |
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Titolo |
Joining places : slave neighborhoods in the old South / / Anthony E. Kaye |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0614-3 |
0-8078-7760-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Collana |
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The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Enslaved persons - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - Social life and customs |
Enslaved persons - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - Social conditions |
Community life - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - History |
Neighborhoods - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - History |
African American neighborhoods - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - History |
Enslaved persons - Southern States - Social life and customs |
Enslaved persons - Southern States - Social conditions |
Community life - Southern States |
Natchez (Miss. : District) Social life and customs |
Natchez (Miss. : District) Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-342) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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