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Joining places : slave neighborhoods in the old South / / Anthony E. Kaye



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Autore: Kaye Anthony E Visualizza persona
Titolo: Joining places : slave neighborhoods in the old South / / Anthony E. Kaye Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
Disciplina: 307.3/36208996073076226
Soggetto topico: Slaves - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - Social life and customs
Slaves - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - Social conditions
Community life - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - History
Neighborhoods - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - History
African American neighborhoods - Mississippi - Natchez (District) - History
Slaves - Southern States - Social life and customs
Slaves - Southern States - Social conditions
Community life - Southern States
Soggetto geografico: Natchez (Miss. : District) Social life and customs
Natchez (Miss. : District) Social conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-342) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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;
Sommario/riassunto: 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, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first
Titolo autorizzato: Joining places  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-9313-127-7
1-4696-0614-3
0-8078-7760-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814546103321
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Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.