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Author:

Neal, Anthony W.

Title:

Unburdened by conscience : a black people's collective account of America's antebellum South and the aftermath / Anthony W. Neal.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publisher:

University Press of America,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 157 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slaves--Abuse of--United States.
Slaves--Southern States--Social conditions.
Slaves--Southern States.
Slaveholders--Southern States.
Slavery--United States--History.
United States--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-152) and index.

Contents:

Scholarship on the brutality of American slavery -- A monopoly of violence in the slaveholder's hands -- The slaves' undying faith in God -- The torture of black women and children -- Public whippings : a terrible part of living -- White man's law : black man's grief -- The omnipresent slave patrols -- A reluctance to call it rape -- Master-on-slave rape revealed -- The threat of injury or death -- Slave resistance -- Rape and slave breeding -- Begetting children for profit -- The humane home-breaker in slavery historiography -- The importance of the slave family -- The break-up of marital unions through slave sales -- The promiscuous bondswoman : myth or reality? -- The break-up of slave families -- One hundred more years of racism and cruelty -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

0761854924 (pbk.)
9780761854920 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)757735466

LCCN:

2011923482

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)