David Stefan Doddington

Old Age and American Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781009123082
• ISBN-10: 1009123084
• Artikelnr.: 67863543

Autorenporträt

David Stefan Doddington is Senior Lecturer in American History at Cardiff University. He is the author of Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Old Age and American Slavery
Part I. The Enslaved: 1. 'As to those more advanced in life': Old Age in Slavery
2. 'Old and broken now
no tongue can tell how much I suffer': Sale, Abandonment, and Neglect
3. 'Young people think that old people are fools but old people know that young people are fools': Intergenerational Conflict among the Enslaved
4. 'Don't kill such an old creature as I': Old Age and Community Tension
5. 'You won't notice me now but you'll wish you had': Conjure, Community, and Intergenerational Conflict
6. 'The summer of my life was passing away': Resistance, Old Age, and Surviving Slavery
Part II. Enslavers: 7. 'Old God damn son-of-a-bitch, she gone on down to hell': Elderly Enslavers and Enslaved Resistance
8. 'They are getting too old and weak': Aged Mastery and White Conflict
9. 'Something must be done with the old man': Dominion after Death
10. 'Let our women and old men... be disabused of the false and unfounded notion that slavery is sinful': Emancipation Contested
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.