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Joining Places

Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

Anthony E Kaye author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press

Published:1st Aug '09

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This title remaps slave society. In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed across the South, Kaye reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves.

ISBN: 9780807861790

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 550g

376 pages

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