Slave against slave : plantation violence in the old South /

Slave against slave : plantation violence in the old South /

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In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until...

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Main Author: Forret, Jeff, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1700-1899
Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Violence > Southern States > History.
Agent (Philosophy) > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Community life > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Social conditions > 18th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Violence, community, and agency in the slave South
  • Origins, prevalence, and patterns
  • Slaves, masters, church, and the civil law of slavery
  • Intraracial slave homicide and the criminal law of slavery
  • Violence at work and play
  • Violence and the slave economy
  • Violence in the creation, maintenance, and destruction of slave unions
  • Honor, violence, and enslaved masculinity
  • Honor, violence, and enslaved femininity
  • Epilogue: "Black-on-black violence" in historical perspective
  • Appendix: Intraracial slave homicides in Virginia, 1777-1864.

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