Sweet Chariot [electronic resource] : Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malone, Ann Patton.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Louisiana--History--19th century.

Louisiana--Population--History--19th century.

Slaves--Family relationships--Louisiana.

Local Subjects:

African Americans--Louisiana--History--19th century.

Louisiana--Population--History--19th century.

Slaves--Family relationships--Louisiana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Other Title:

Sweet Chariot

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive research, is both a statistical study over time of 155 slave communities in twenty-six Louisiana parishes and a descriptive study of three plantations: Oakland, Petite Anse, and Tiger Island.Malone first provides a regional analys

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: The Collective Experience and Louisiana Slave Household Organization; Chapter One. Family and Household Organization; Chapter Two. The Effects of Periodization; Chapter Three. The Influence of Parish Type and Size of Holding; PART II: The Developmental Cycle of Three Louisiana Slave Communities; Chapter Four. Owners and Slaves; Chapter Five. Gender and Age Distribution and Household Composition; Chapter Six. Marriage, Birth, and Kinship Patterns; A section of illustrations; PART III: Patterns; Chapter Seven. Images and Influences

Chapter Eight. Findings and ConclusionsAPPENDIXES; A. Developmental Patterns in Louisiana Slave Communities; B. Households and Housefuls in Oakland's Slave Quarter; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8078-4590-6

OCLC:

823382339