Slavery in Mississippi
By: Charles S. Sydnor ; new introduction by John David Smith
Edition: Paperback edition.
Series: Southern classics series
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781611173321
Subjects: Slavery; Slaves; Social conditions; African Americans; History; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
Description: "Slavery in Mississippi, first published in 1933, is a deeply researched and tightly argued social and economic study of slave life in Mississippi by Charles S. Sydnor (1898-1954). Inspired by Ulrich B. Phillips's American Negro Slavery (1918) and Life and Labor in the Old South (1929), Sydnor strived to test Phillips's contention that slavery was simultaneously a benign institution for African American slaves and an unprofitable one for their masters. Sydnor included path-breaking chapters on such broad scholarly topics as slave labor, slave trading, and the profitability of slavery, but he also examined in depth slave clothing, food, shelter, physical and social care, police control, slave fugitives, and punishments and rewards. More thorough than many previous historians, Sydnor examined how slavery "worked" as a social and economic system--how slaves actually lived, how planters bought, cared for, controlled, hired out, and sold their human property. Historian John David Smith's new introduction to this Southern Classic edition frames the original text within the scholarship on slavery in the interwar years, presents its arguments, chronicles its reception by white and black critics, and highlights the ongoing debates about slavery, especially on the profitability of slavery and the conditions of slave life sparked by Sydnor's influential book"--
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Institute for  Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina."

Originally published: New York : D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated [c1933]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Work; title: Clothing, Food, and Shelter; title: Physical and Social Care; title: Plantation and Police Control of Slaves; title: Punishments and Rewards 000  Chapter 6: Fugitives; title: Buying, Selling, and Hiring; title: Profitableness of Slavery; title: Contemporary Opinions.