Title Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South. / David Stefan Doddington

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge studies on the American South Cambridge studies on the American South. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ''Are you men?''; 1 ''If I had my life to live over, I would die fighting rather than be a slave again'': Resistance, Manhood, and Survival in Slavery; 2 ''The best amongst them was picked for that job'': Authority, Discipline, and Masculinity; 3 ''I never seen such a worker as my father'': Work, Industry, and Masculinity; 4 ''He am big and 'cause he so he think everybody do what him say'': Manhood, Sex, and Power 5 ''The best man whipped and the other one took it'': Violence, Leisure, and MasculinityConclusion: Contesting Slave Masculinity; Bibliography; Manuscript Records; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin; Library of Virginia; Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA; South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Newspapers; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index Summary Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2018) Subject Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Psychology Masculinity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century African American men -- Southern States -- Psychology -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. African American men -- Psychology Masculinity Enslaved persons -- Psychology Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108335294 1108335292 9781108539425 1108539424

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