This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South (Galaxy Books)
by Leslie Howard Owens
Category: History

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 toslaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.