Sweet Chariot
Subtitle: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780807845905
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Rural communities; Slavery & emancipation; Louisiana; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Population; United States - General; Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family; South; African American; Oakland;  Petite Anse; Tiger Island; plantations; Family relationships; 19th century; African Americans; Slaves
First sentence: Sweet Chariot focuses on a single aspect of the experience of slavery in rural Louisiana-the ways slaves were constituted into families and households within a community.