Paul Teed, Melissa Teed

Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South

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Produktbeschreibung

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 the 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781440863240
• ISBN-10: 1440863245
• Artikelnr.: 58581932

Autorenporträt

Paul E. Teed is professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University. Melissa Ladd Teed is professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Timeline of Events Glossary 1. Economic Life The
Planters' Economy The Agricultural Cycle The Chesapeake and Tobacco Cotton
Sugar Rice Slave Hiring Reproduction and the "Fancy Trade" Domestic Work
Independent Production Document: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
(1853) 2. Domestic Life The Slave Trade Bonds of Affection Courtship and
Marriage Pregnancy and Childbirth Parenting Enslaved Children Document:
Henry Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) 3. Material
Life Food Slave Quarters Clothing Documents: Interview with Tempie Cummins
(1937) and Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States (1837) 4. Religious
Life The African Spiritual Legacy Christianity and Conversion Origins of
the Black Church Religion and Daily Life Religion and Rebellion Document:
Peter Randolph, Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar
Institution" (1855) 5. Political Life Paternalism: The Ideology of
Plantation Government The Politics of Fieldwork The Politics of the Big
House Disrupting the Plantation Hierarchy Enslaved People and American
Politics Document: Louis Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to
Freedom (1896) 6. Intellectual Life Slavery and Literacy in the Antebellum
South The Meanings of Literacy Slave Narratives: Ex-Slaves as Organic
Intellectuals Folk Medicine: Healing Knowledge in the Slave Community
Document: Thomas Jones, The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave
for Forty-Three Years (1862) 7. Recreational Life Music Dancing Holidays
and Festivities Children's Games Storytelling Document: William Wells
Brown, My Southern Home (1880) Bibliography Index