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Sold down the river : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / Anthony Gene Carey.
LIBRA E445.A3 C37 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Anthony Gene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Chattahoochee River Valley.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Chattahoochee River Valley--History.
- Chattahoochee River Valley--History.
- Chattahoochee River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- x, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place
- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier
- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade
- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life
- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power
- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship
- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity
- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817317416
- 0817317414
- 9780817385668
- 0817385665
- OCLC:
- 682903958
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