Joining Places
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Joining Places by Anthony Kaye
This title remaps slave society. In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed across the South, Kaye reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves.
ANTHONY E. KAYE is assistant professor of American history at Pennsylvania State University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780807861790 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807861790 |
| Title | Joining Places |
| Author | Anthony Kaye |
| Series | The John Hope Franklin Series In African American History And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2009-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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