The Quarters and the Fields [electronic resource] : Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South /
Pargas, Damian Alan.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
Offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane.
Description based upon print version of record.
Offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families -- Slave societies of the non-cotton South -- The nature of agricultural labor -- Family contact during working hours -- Family-based internal economies -- Slaveholding across time and space -- Marriage strategies and family formation -- Forced separation -- Weathering different storms.
Description based on print version record.
Geography
Agriculture
African American families
Slavery
Plantation life
Slaves
Slaves