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The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South / Damian Alan Pargas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pargas, Damian Alan.
- Series:
- New perspectives on the history of the South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Family relationships--Southern States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- Geography--Social aspects.
- History.
- Geography.
- Agriculture--Social aspects.
- African American families.
- Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons--Family relationships.
- Southern States.
- Slavery--Southern States--History.
- Slavery.
- African American families--Southern States--Social conditions--History.
- Agriculture--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
- Agriculture.
- Geography--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 259 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families
- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South
- The nature of agricultural labor
- Family contact during working hours
- Family-based internal economies
- Slaveholding across time and space
- Marriage strategies and family formation
- Forced separation
- Weathering different storms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813035147
- 0813035147
- OCLC:
- 609872080
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