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Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvPaul E. Teed,Melissa Ladd Teed

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Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of slavery, this book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation.In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, resilience, and an insatiable desire to be free. The Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South focuses on their struggles to create lives of meaning and dignity within a brutal and repressive system.This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under which they lived but that they found ways to forge lives of their own. The book synthesizes the latest and best literature on slavery and gives readers the opportunity to examine history through the lens of daily life using primary source documents created by slaves or former slaves.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-22
Mått152 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGreenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798216439363

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PrefaceIntroductionTimeline of EventsGlossary1. Economic LifeThe Planters' EconomyThe Agricultural CycleThe Chesapeake and TobaccoCottonSugarRiceSlave HiringReproduction and the "Fancy Trade"Domestic WorkIndependent ProductionDocument: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853)2. Domestic LifeThe Slave TradeBonds of AffectionCourtship and MarriagePregnancy and ChildbirthParenting Enslaved ChildrenDocument: Henry Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851)3. Material LifeFoodSlave QuartersClothingDocuments: Interview with Tempie Cummins (1937) and Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States (1837)4. Religious LifeThe African Spiritual LegacyChristianity and ConversionOrigins of the Black ChurchReligion and Daily LifeReligion and RebellionDocument: Peter Randolph, Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (1855)5. Political LifePaternalism: The Ideology of Plantation GovernmentThe Politics of FieldworkThe Politics of the Big HouseDisrupting the Plantation HierarchyEnslaved People and American PoliticsDocument: Louis Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (1896)6. Intellectual LifeSlavery and Literacy in the Antebellum SouthThe Meanings of LiteracySlave Narratives: Ex-Slaves as Organic IntellectualsFolk Medicine: Healing Knowledge in the Slave CommunityDocument: Thomas Jones, The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (1862)7. Recreational LifeMusicDancingHolidays and FestivitiesChildren's GamesStorytellingDocument: William Wells Brown, My Southern Home (1880)BibliographyIndex