Families in Crisis in the Old South
Author: Loren Schweninger
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0807835692
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Creating an Old South
Author: Edward E. Baptist
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-04-03
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0807860034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South. Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson and Leon Counties. Slaves, torn from family and community, were forced to carve plantations from the woods of Middle Florida, while planters and less wealthy white men battled over the social, political, and economic institutions of their new society. Conflict between white men became full-scale crisis in the 1840s, but when sectional conflict seemed to threaten slavery, the whites of Middle Florida found common ground. In politics and everyday encounters, they enshrined the ideal of white male equality--and black inequality. To mask their painful memories of crisis, the planter elite told themselves that their society had been transplanted from older states without conflict. But this myth of an "Old," changeless South only papered over the struggles that transformed slave society in the course of its expansion. In fact, that myth continues to shroud from our view the plantation frontier, the very engine of conflict that had led to the myth's creation.
Sexual Violence and American Slavery
Author: Shannon Eaves
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2024-04-30
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of sexualized violence meant for themselves and others. Eaves mines a wealth of primary sources including autobiographies, diaries, court records, and more to show that rape and other forms of sexual exploitation entangled slaves and slave owners in battles over power to protect oneself and one's community, power to avenge hurt and humiliation, and power to punish and eliminate future threats. By placing sexual violence at the center of the systems of power and culture, Eaves shows how the South's rape culture was revealed in enslaved people's and their enslavers' interactions with one another and with members of their respective communities.
Bound in Wedlock
Author: Tera W. Hunter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-05-08
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0674979249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother
Ruffin
Author: David F. Allmendinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Allmendinger here examines the family life and reform career of a controversial antebellum Southerner. Born to a wealthy Virginia family, Edmund Ruffin lived through a revolution in family history. The book shows how he entangled his family in his causes and reveals the catastrophic personal consequences of the Civil War.
The Failure of Our Fathers
Author: Victoria E. Ott
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0817321470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Examines the evolving position of non-elite whites in 19th Alabama society--from the state's creation through the end of the Civil War--through the lens of gender and family"--
Religion and Slavery
Kentucky Women
Author: Melissa A. McEuen
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0820344532
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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Author: Michael P. Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1986-04-17
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0393245489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.
Rethinking American Emancipation
Author: William A. Link
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107073030
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