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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| Title | The slave community: plantation life in the antebellum South |
| Author | John W. Blassingame |
| Edition | 2, revised, illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 11, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0195025628, 9780195025620 |
| Length | 414 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / General History / United States / General History / United States / State & Local / General History / United States / State & Local / South History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Plantation life Plantation life - Southern States Plantation life/ Southern States Slavery Slavery - Southern States Slavery/ Southern States Social Science / Slavery Southern States |
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