This species of property : slave life and culture in the Old South / Leslie Howard Owens.

By:

Owens, Leslie Howard [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780198020226
0198020228

Other title:

Slave life and culture in the Old South

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: This species of property.DDC classification:

301.44/93/0973

LOC classification:

E443 .O9 1977eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: Owens' study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.

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Owens' study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.