LEADER 03070nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910465541303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8566-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000079504 035 $a(EBL)835660 035 $a(OCoLC)772845372 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000593396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364815 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000593396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10740334 035 $a(PQKB)11730669 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC835660 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL835660 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10527800 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000079504 100 $a20101117d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSold down the river$b[electronic resource] $eslavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia /$fAnthony Gene Carey 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $a"Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society." 311 $a0-8173-1741-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery. 330 $aIn the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich and powerful slave societies, the United States of America and then the Confederate States of America. The expansion and concentration of slavery into what became the Confederacy in 1861 was arguably the most momentous development after nationhood itself in the early history of the America 606 $aSlavery$zChattahoochee River Valley 606 $aSlavery$zChattahoochee River Valley$xHistory 607 $aChattahoochee River Valley$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlavery 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 676 $a306.3/6209758 700 $aCarey$b Anthony Gene$01045711 712 02$aHistoric Chattahoochee Commission. 712 02$aTroup County Historical Society. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465541303321 996 $aSold down the river$92472155 997 $aUNINA