The Afro-American slaves : community or chaos? / Edited by Randall M. Miller, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. Department of History Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Randall M., editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

United States.

History.

African Americans--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 146 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Original edition.

Place of Publication:

Malabar, Florida : Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1981.

Contents:

I. The Seeds of Slavery and the Slave Community. "It was a Negro taught them": A New look at African labor in early South Carolina / Peter H. Wood; Rethinking American Negro Slavery from the vantage point of the Colonial Era / Gerald W. Mullin

II. From the Bottom Up: Masters and Slaves, Family and Religion. American Slaves and their history / Eugene D. Genovese; Slave songs and slave consciousness / Lawrence W. Levine; The Black Family in slavery and freedom / Herbert Gutman

III. The Distribution of Culture and Power in the Slave Community. The preservation of oral stories in Black culture / Gladys-Marie Fry; The peer group / Thomas L. Webber; Status and social structure in the slave community / John W. Blassingame; The creolization of slave folklife / Charles W. Joyner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-146).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0898740789

OCLC:

6602818