This Species of Property : Slave life and culture in the Old South / Leslie Howard Owens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, Leslie Howard.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Galaxy book ; GB517.

A Galaxy Book ; GB517

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

United States.

Social conditions.

Slavery--Southern States.

Slavery.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 291 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Oxford University Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1977.

Summary:

In some areas of analysis This Species of Property provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere. Its appearance is another welcome indication that the slaves rather than their owners are now holding the center of the historiographical stage.

Contents:

Introduction

"... The Necessity of Bondage"

Drawing the Color Line

Into the Fields-Life, Disease, and Labor in the Old South

Blackstrap Molasses and Cornbread-Diet and Its Impact on Behavior

The Logic of Resistance

The Household slave

The Black Slave Driver

The Shadow of the Slave Quarters

The Rhythm of Culture

A Family Folk

This Property is Condemned.

Notes:

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1977."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is 1979 reprint.

ISBN:

0195022459

OCLC:

16425270