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Author Pargas, Damian Alan

Title The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South / Damian Alan Pargas
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages)
Series New perspectives on the history of the South
New perspectives on the history of the South.
Contents Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families -- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South -- The nature of agricultural labor -- Family contact during working hours -- Family-based internal economies -- Slaveholding across time and space -- Marriage strategies and family formation -- Forced separation -- Weathering different storms
Summary Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the 19th-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- Southern States
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History
Slavery -- Southern States -- History
African American families -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- History
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
Geography -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
African American families -- Southern States -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American families -- Social conditions
Agriculture -- Social aspects
Geography -- Social aspects
Plantation life
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Slaven (arbeid)
Slavernij.
Families.
SUBJECT Southern States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125661
Subject Southern States
Zuidelijke staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010017081
ISBN 9780813036588
0813036585
0813059070
9780813059075
0813038774
9780813038773