Wilma A. Dunaway, Dunaway Wilma a.

The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation

Herausgeber: Aymard, Maurice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521012164
• ISBN-10: 0521012163
• Artikelnr.: 21059558

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Slave trading and forced labor migrations
2. Family diasporas and parenthood lost
3. Malnutrition, ecological risks, and slave mortality
4. Reproductive exploitation and child mortality
5. Slave household subsistence and women's work
6. The impacts of Civil War on slave families
7. The risks of emancipation for black families
8. Reconstruction threats to black family survival
Theoretical reprise.