SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN MOUNTAIN SOUTH by Wilma A. Dunaway ( 9780521012157 )

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SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN MOUNTAIN SOUTH

By:

Wilma A. Dunaway

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0521012155

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 May, 2003

Series:

Studies in Modern Capitalism

Pages:

368

Description:

This book focuses on slave experiences on small plantations in the American Upper South.

Synopsis:

Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that a region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small slaveholdings. By drawing on a massive statistical data base derived from antebellum census manuscripts and county tax records of 215 counties in nine states, on a vast array of slaveholder manuscripts, and on regional slave narratives, she pinpoints several indicators that distinguished Mountain South enslavement from the Lower South. These include a higher incidence of ethnic mixing between African and Native American slaves, heavier reliance on the field labor of women and children, and more frequent assignment of slaves to non-agricultural occupations. Dunaway also calls into question the notion that large numbers were necessary before slaves could engage in community building and resistance.

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32 b/w illus. 9 maps

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Cambridge University Press

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