Slavery and frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 / David J. Libby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Libby, David J., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Mississippi--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Mississippi--History--19th century.

Slavery--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--History.

Frontier and pioneer life--Mississippi.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--Mississippi--Natchez (District).

Plantation life--Mississippi--History.

Plantation life.

Plantation life--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--History.

Mississippi--History--To 1803.

Mississippi.

Natchez (Miss. : District)--History--18th century.

Natchez (Miss. : District).

Natchez (Miss. : District)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American history -- African American studies --> In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi's past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slavery took a number of shapes before its form in the late antebellum mold became crystalized for popular culture. The colonial French introduced African sla

Contents:

French slavery in colonial Natchez

Resettlement of the Natchez region

The cotton frontier of territorial Mississippi

Slaves in the western migration

Defining the boundaries of enslavement

The transformation of Mississippi

Conclusion: Mississippi, the closed society.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-157) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-43441-5

9786613434418

1-60473-050-1

1-4237-3209-X

OCLC:

191952587