num_pages: 304
description: Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.
language: English
title: This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South
titlecomplete: This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South (Galaxy Books)
genres: History
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Oxford University Press