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Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South / Damian Alan Pargas, Leiden University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pargas, Damian Alan, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies on the American South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- History.
- Migrant labor.
- Enslaved persons.
- Social conditions.
- Migration, Internal.
- Forced migration.
- Slave trade.
- Southern States.
- Slave trade--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Forced migration--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Migrant labor--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Assimilation (Sociology)--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding Southwest, scattered locally, and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Migration
- Valuable Bodies
- The Gathering Storm
- Changing Places
- Part II. Assimilation
- Cogs in the Wheel
- Managing Newcomers
- Slave Crucibles
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107031210
- 1107031214
- 9781107658967
- 1107658969
- OCLC:
- 885226034
- Online:
- Cover image
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