Overview

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.

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Author:   Paul E. Teed ,  Melissa Ladd Teed, PhD
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9781440863240

ISBN 10:   1440863245
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 January 2020
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  College/higher education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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Recommended. General readers through upper-division undergraduates. - Choice

"""Recommended. General readers through upper-division undergraduates."" - Choice"

Author Information

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

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