Unburdened by conscience : a black people's collective account of America's ante-bellum South and the aftermath /
Neal, Anthony W.
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : University Press of America,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-147) and index.
Scholarship on the brutality of American slavery -- A monopoly of violence in the slaveholder's hands -- The slaves' undying faith in God -- The torture of black women and children -- Public whippings : a terrible part of living -- White man's law : black man's grief -- The omnipresent slave patrols -- A reluctance to call it rape -- Master-on-slave rape revealed -- The threat of injury or death -- Slave resistance -- Rape and slave-breeding -- Begetting children for profit -- The humane home-breaker in slavery historiography -- The importance of the slave family -- The break-up of marital unions through slave sales -- The promiscuous bondswoman : myth or reality? -- The break-up of slave families -- One hundred more years of racism and cruelty -- Epilogue.
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