The Slaves of Liberty

Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-98210-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: Crosscurrents in African American History

This study focuses on the lives of the black slave majority in the deep South in the mid-19th century. The topics of civil law, demographics, the role of the church, family life, plantation economics, and gender issues are all revealed through careful study of primary sources previously unexamined by historians. The author has meticulously researched newspapers, court transcripts, county archives, church minutes, plantation journals, and oral histories to produce an astonishingly detailed picture of the lives of blacks and whites during this critical period. The readable narrative was nominated for the Allan Nevins Prize for dissertations in American history in 1993.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Dale Edwyna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Foreword, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1. Amite County, Mississippi, Chapter 2. The Color of Law, Chapter 3. The Broken Circle: Our Family, Black and White, Chapter 4. The Kindlier Sphere: The Women of Amite County, Chapter 5. Plantations of the Lord, Chapter 6. War, Chapter 7. Emancipation, Chapter 8. I and Tone: The Lives of Eli and Tony Capell, Chapter 9. Conclusion, Appendix, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dale Edwyna Smith