1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820360003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003

ISBN

1-283-43440-7

9786613434401

1-60473-045-5

1-4237-3194-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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...