The slave community: plantation life in the antebellum SouthExamines 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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Contents
Enslavement Acculturation and African Survivals | 3 |
The Americanization of the Slave and the Africanization | 49 |
Culture | 105 |
Copyright | |
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South John W. Blassingame No preview available - 1979 |
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