The Texas Lowcountry : Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822-1895 / John R. Lundberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundberg, John R., author.

Series:

Prairie View A & M University series.

Prairie View A&M University Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Texas--Gulf Coast--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Freed persons--Social conditions.

Freed persons.

Freed persons--Texas--Gulf Coast--Social conditions--19th century.

Brazoria County (Tex.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Brazoria County (Tex.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822-1895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas he terms the lowcountry-an area encompassing the lower reaches of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries as they wend their way toward the Gulf of Mexico through what is today Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties. In the two decades before the Civil War, European immigrants, particularly Germans, poured into Texas, sometimes bringing with them cultural ideals that complicated the story of slavery throughout large swaths of the state. By contrast, 95 percent of the white population of the lowcountry came from other parts of the United States, predominantly the slaveholding states of the American South. By 1861, more than 70 percent of this regional population were enslaved people-the heaviest such concentration west of the Mississippi. These demographics established the Texas Lowcountry as a distinct region in terms of its population and social structure. Part one of The Texas Lowcountry explores the development of the region as a borderland, an area of competing cultures and peoples, between 1822 and 1840. The second part is arranged topically and chronicles the history of the enslavers and the enslaved in the lowcountry between 1840 and 1865. The final section focuses on the experiences of freed people in the region during the Reconstruction era, which ended in the lowcountry in 1895. In closely examining this unique pocket of Texas, Lundberg provides a new and much needed region-specific study of the culture of enslavement and the African American experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: A Borderlands, 1822-1840

Chapter 1. Carving out a Plantation Society

Chapter 2. An Enslaver's Rebellion

Chapter 3. Agents of Change: The Tipping Point

Part 2: A Deep South Society, 1840-1865

Chapter 4. Gone to Texas in Chains: Forced Migration into the Lowcountry

Chapter 5. Neighboring Plantations: The White Society and Geography of the Texas Lowcountry

Chapter 6. Extracting Every Ounce of Profit: Slavery's Capitalism in the Texas Lowcountry

Chapter 7. Complex Households: Gender, Sex, and Slavery in the Texas Lowcountry

Chapter 8. The Long Struggle: Resistance and Emancipation in the Texas Lowcountry

Part 3: Reconstruction, 1865-1895

Chapter 9. The Struggle for Equality

Chapter 10. The Places in Between

Chapter 11. The Birth of Jim Crow

Conclusion: Ain't No More 'Cane on the Brazos

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A gallery of illustrations.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781648431760