Unburdened by conscience
Subtitle: a black people's collective account of America's ante-bellum South and the aftermath
By: Anthony W. Neal
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780761843870
Subjects: Social conditions; Slaveholders; Abuse of; Slaves
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-147) and index.
Table of contents: title: Scholarship on the brutality of American slavery; title: A monopoly of violence in the slaveholder's hands; title: The slaves' undying faith in God; title: The torture of black women and children; title: Public whippings : a terrible part of living; title: White man's law : black man's grief; title: The omnipresent slave patrols; title: A reluctance to call it rape; title: Master-on-slave rape revealed; title: The threat of injury or death; title: Slave resistance; title: Rape and slave-breeding; title: Begetting children for profit; title: The humane home-breaker in slavery historiography; title: The importance of the slave family; title: The break-up of marital unions through slave sales; title: The promiscuous bondswoman : myth or reality?; title: The break-up of slave families; title: One hundred more years of racism and cruelty; title: Epilogue.