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