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Joining places : slave neighborhoods in the old South / Anthony E. Kaye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaye, Anthony E.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--Social life and customs.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--Social conditions.
- Community life--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--History.
- Community life.
- Neighborhoods--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--History.
- Neighborhoods.
- African American neighborhoods--Mississippi--Natchez (District)--History.
- African American neighborhoods.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social life and customs--Case studies.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Community life--Southern States--Case studies.
- Natchez (Miss. : District)--Social life and customs.
- Natchez (Miss. : District).
- Natchez (Miss. : District)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed across the South, Kaye reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neighborhoods; 2 Intimate Relations; 3 Divisions of Labor; 4 Terrains of Struggle; 5 Beyond Neighborhood; 6 War and Emancipation; Epilogue; Appendix: Population, Land, and Labor; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-342) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908733-9-2
- 979-88-9313-127-7
- 1-4696-0614-3
- 0-8078-7760-3
- OCLC:
- 476190232
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