A way out of no way
Subtitle: claiming family and freedom in the new South
By: Dianne Swann-Wright.
Series: The American South series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Newman family; Trent family; Page family; Carey family; Slaves -- Virginia -- Buckingham County -- Social conditions; Plantation owners -- Virginia -- Buckingham County -- Social conditions; Plantation life -- Virginia -- Buckingham County; African Americans -- Virginia -- Buckingham County -- Biography; Whites -- Virginia -- Buckingham County -- Biography; Buckingham County (Va.) -- Race relations
Genres: Biography.
Description: Publisher description -- Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Patronage; title: Work relationships; title: Land acquisition; title: Getting things; title: Spoken words; title: A coming together.