| Description |
xviii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
1. Enslavement, acculturation, and African survivals -- 2. The Americanization of the slave and the Africanization of the South -- 3. Culture -- 4. The slave family -- 5. Rebels and runaways -- 6. Plantation stereotypes and institutional roles -- 7. Plantation realities -- 8. Slave personality types -- Appendix I. Comparative examination of total institutions -- Appendix II. African words, numerals, and sentences used by former slaves in Georgia and South Carolina in the 1890s -- Appendix III. Statistics on slaves and slavery : observations and tables |
| Summary |
Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline |
| Analysis |
Plantation life Southern States |
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Slavery Southern States |
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United States Southern states Black slaves Social conditions 1700-1860 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 383-402 |
| Subject |
Plantation life -- Southern States (U.S.)
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Slavery -- Southern States (U.S.)
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Plantation life -- Southern States.
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Slavery -- Southern States.
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| LC no. |
78026890 |
| ISBN |
0195025628 |
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0195025636 (paperback) |
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