At Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise in Virginia before the Civil War, a unique treasury of materials yields an "engrossing, often surprising record of everyday life on an estate in the antebellum South" (Kirkus Reviews).
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Brings to touching, disturbing light aspects of the complex economic and emotional relationships that existed between slave and master." -- Michael Dorris - Los Angeles Times "Enriches our understanding of the human as well as the larger social and economic meaning of American slavery." -- Drew Gilpin Faust - New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the clearest picture of slave life ever. . . . A big window on a world that shaped our own." -- David Shribman - Wall Street Journal
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-393-31359-8 (9780393313598)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Charles B. Dew is Class of 1956 Professor of American Studies at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
