Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South
by20200131
Greenwood
Pages | 248 |
Topics | Anti-Literacy Laws;Antislavery Movements;Economic Life of Slaves;Family Life of Slaves;Intellectual Life of Slaves;Material Life of Slaves;Political Life of Slaves;Pro-slavery Sentiment;Recreational Life of Slaves;Religious Life of Slaves;Slave Narratives |
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eBook
9781440863257
MLA
Teed, Paul and Teed, Melissa. Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South. Greenwood, 2020. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440863257.
Chicago Manual of Style
Teed, Paul, and Melissa Teed. Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South. Greenwood, 2020. http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440863257
APA
Teed, P. & Teed, M. (2020). Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South. Retrieved from http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440863257
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This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation.
In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, resilience, and an insatiable desire to be free. The Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South focuses on their struggles to create lives of meaning and dignity within a brutal and repressive system.
This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under which they lived, but that they found ways to forge lives of their own. The book synthesizes the latest and best literature on slavery and gives readers the opportunity to examine history through the lens of daily life using primary source documents created by slaves or former slaves.
- Provides readers with an understanding of the daily lives of enslaved African Americans
- Depicts how slaves struggled to create lives of dignity and meaning within a system designed to dehumanize them
- Points out important ways in which slaves resisted slavery
- Links the history of slavery to the larger history of Antebellum America
- Uses primary source documents and slave narratives to provide a supporting voice to the text
- Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South
Author(s): Teed, Paul; Teed, Melissa;Contributors: Teed, Paul; Teed, Melissa;Abstract:This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation.
In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, resilience, and an insatiable desire to be free. The Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South focuses on their struggles to create lives of meaning and dignity within a brutal and repressive system.
This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under which they lived, but that they found ways to forge lives of their own. The book synthesizes the latest and best literature on slavery and gives readers the opportunity to examine history through the lens of daily life using primary source documents created by slaves or former slaves.
- Provides readers with an understanding of the daily lives of enslaved African Americans
- Depicts how slaves struggled to create lives of dignity and meaning within a system designed to dehumanize them
- Points out important ways in which slaves resisted slavery
- Links the history of slavery to the larger history of Antebellum America
- Uses primary source documents and slave narratives to provide a supporting voice to the text
SortTitle: daily life of african american slaves in the antebellum southAuthor Info:Paul E. TeedauthorMelissa Ladd TeedauthoreISBN-13: 9781440863257Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440863257.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440863240Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 248Publication Date: 20200131Series: Daily Life- Cover Cover11
- Half Title i2
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Contents v6
- Preface ix10
- Introduction xiii14
- Timeline of Events xix20
- Glossary xxiii24
- 1. Economic Life 128
- 2. Domestic Life 3966
- 3. Material Life 6794
- 4. Religious Life 97124
- 5. Political Life 125152
- 6. Intellectual Life 153180
- Slavery and Literacy in the Antebellum South 155182
- The Meanings of Literacy 162189
- Slave Narratives: Ex-Slaves as Organic Intellectuals 166193
- Folk Medicine: Healing Knowledge in the Slave Community 172199
- Document: Thomas Jones, The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (1862) 175202
- 7. Recreational Life 179206
- Bibliography 207234
- Index 215242