The quarters and the fields
Subtitle: slave families in the non-cotton South
By: Damian Alan Pargas
Series: New perspectives on the history of the South
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780813035147
Subjects: Slaves; Family relationships; Social conditions; Plantation life; History; Slavery; African American families; Agriculture; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families; title: Slave societies of the non-cotton South; title: The nature of agricultural labor; title: Family contact during working hours; title: Family-based internal economies; title: Slaveholding across time and space; title: Marriage strategies and family formation; title: Forced separation; title: Weathering different storms.