This species of property : slave life and culture in the Old South / Leslie Howard Owens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, Leslie Howard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Southern States.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1977, c1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction-"". . . The Necessity of Bondage""; 1. Drawing the Color Line; 2. Into the Fields-Life, Disease, and Labor in the Old South; 3. Blackstrap Molasses and Cornbread-Diet and Its Impact on Behavior; 4. The Logic of Resistance; 5. The Household Slave; 6. The Black Slave Driver; 7. The Shadow of the Slave Quarters; 8. The Rhythm of Culture; 9. A Family Folk; 10. This Property Is Condemned; Manuscript Sources; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-52278-X

0-19-802022-8

OCLC:

466432066