The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South / John W. Blassingame.

Author/creator Blassingame, John W. author.
Format Book
EditionRevised and enlarged edition.
PublicationNew York : Oxford University Press, [1979]
Copyright Date©1979
Descriptionxviii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Slavery--Southern States.
Plantation life--Southern States.

Portion of title Plantation life in the antebellum South
Contents Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- 1. Enslavement, acculturation, and African survivals -- 2. The Americanization of the slave and the Africanization of the South -- 3. Culture -- 4. The slave family -- 5. Rebels and runaways -- 6. Plantation stereotypes and institutional roles -- 7. Plantation realities -- 8. Slave personality types -- Appendix I. Comparative examination of total institutions -- Appendix II. African words, numerals, and sentences used by former slaves in Georgia and South Carolina in the 1890s -- Appendix III. Statistics on slaves and slavery : observations and tables.
Abstract Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-402) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Blassingame, John W., 1940-2000. Slave community. Revised and enlarged edition. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979
LCCN 78026890
ISBN0195025636
ISBN9780195025637 (pbk.)
ISBN0195025628
ISBN9780195025620
Govt. docs number HIS2021
Stock number£7.95

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