Strategies for survival : recollections of bondage in Antebellum Virginia / William Dusinberre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dusinberre, William, 1930-

Series:

Carter G. Woodson Institute series.

Carter G. Woodson Institute series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Virginia--Social conditions--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Virginia--Biography.

African Americans--Virginia--Interviews.

African Americans.

Agent (Philosophy)--Case studies.

Agent (Philosophy).

Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Virginia--Race relations--History--19th century.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We see great creativity and variety in such responses to oppression, but we are forced to acknowledge the dispiriting realties of enslaved existence and the limits of enslaved people's resistance and agency.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Alleviations

Chapter 1: Good Mistresses and Masters

Chapter 2: Mixed-Race Ancestry and Long-Term Relationships

Chapter 3: Cities and Industry

Part II: Offenses

Chapter 4: Family Disruption

Chapter 5: Physical Abuse

Chapter 6: Regimentation

Chapter 7: Contempt

Chapter 8: Deprivation

Part III: Responses

Chapter 9: Religion

Chapter 10: Dissidence

Chapter 11: Families

Chapter 12: The Black Community

Chapter 13: Self-Development

Part IV: Retrospect

Chapter 14: Oppression and Self-Determination

Appendix

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585295

9781280490064

1280490063

9780813928364

0813928362

OCLC:

753976364