This species of property
Subtitle: slave life and culture in the Old South
By: Leslie Howard Owens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.; Slavery -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Social conditions.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.