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1 online resource |
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Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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| Contents |
Coastal Africa and Atlantic slavery -- Management, labor, and life cycles -- The "Law of respect to elders" -- Communities of care and concern -- Home for the aged -- Epilogue : a Black wisdom tradition |
| Summary |
"In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal role of elders in the history of African American community formation through Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, letters, diaries, meeting minutes, and state and federal archives, Knight also examines how blacks and whites, men and women, and the young and the old developed competing ideas about age and aging, differences that shaped social relations in coastal West and West Central Africa, the Atlantic and domestic slave trades, colonial and antebellum Southern slave societies, and emancipation in the North and South. Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans, the day-to-day struggles they waged around their experiences of aging, and how they drew upon these resources to define the meaning of family, community, and freedom"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Older African Americans -- History
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African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
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African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
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Aging -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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Enslaved older people -- United States -- Social conditions -- History
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Social conditions -- History
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Freed persons -- United States -- Social conditions -- History
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- History
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Slavery -- Southern States
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Older people.
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Old age.
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old age.
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HISTORY / African American .
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Old age
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Older people
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Slavery
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Southern States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781512825671 |
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1512825670 |
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