Dale Edwyna Smith

The Slaves of Liberty (eBook, PDF)

Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868

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Produktbeschreibung

This study focuses on the lives of the black slave majority in the deep South in the mid-19th century. The topics of civil law, demographics, the role of the church, family life, plantation economics, and gender issues are all revealed through careful study of primary sources previously unexamined by historians. The author has meticulously researched newspapers, court transcripts, county archives, church minutes, plantation journals, and oral histories to produce an astonishingly detailed picture of the lives of blacks and whites during this critical period. The readable narrative was nominated for the Allan Nevins Prize for dissertations in American history in 1993.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136747755
• Artikelnr.: 39703875

Autorenporträt

Dale Edwyna Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Amite County
Mississippi
Chapter 2. The Color of Law
Chapter 3. The Broken Circle: Our Family
Black and White
Chapter 4. The Kindlier Sphere: The Women of Amite County
Chapter 5. Plantations of the Lord
Chapter 6. War
Chapter 7. Emancipation
Chapter 8. I and Tone: The Lives of Eli and Tony Capell
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index