
Joining Places
Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South
Anthony E. Kaye(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 1. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-8078-6179-0 (ISBN)
Description
This title remaps slave society. In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed across the South, Kaye reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
639 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-6179-0 (9780807861790)
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01/2009
The University of North Carolina Press
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ANTHONY E. KAYE is assistant professor of American history at Pennsylvania State University.