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Author:

Pargas, Damian Alan.

Title:

The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South / Damian Alan Pargas.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 259 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Slaves--Family relationships--Southern States.
Slaves--Southern States--Social conditions.
Plantation life--Southern States--History.
Slavery--Southern States--History.
African American families--Southern States--History.--History.
Agriculture--History.--Southern States--History.
Geography--History.--Southern States--History.
Southern States--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families -- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South -- The nature of agricultural labor -- Family contact during working hours -- Family-based internal economies -- Slaveholding across time and space -- Marriage strategies and family formation -- Forced separation -- Weathering different storms.

Series:

New perspectives on the history of the South

ISBN:

0813035147 (alk. paper)
9780813035147 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)609872080

LCCN:

2010017081

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)