Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Cambridge studies on the American South
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ''Are you men?''; 1 ''If I had my life to live over, I would die fighting rather than be a slave again'': Resistance, Manhood, and Survival in Slavery; 2 ''The best amongst them was picked for that job'': Authority, Discipline, and Masculinity; 3 ''I never seen such a worker as my father'': Work, Industry, and Masculinity; 4 ''He am big and 'cause he so he think everybody do what him say'': Manhood, Sex, and Power. |
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5 ''The best man whipped and the other one took it'': Violence, Leisure, and MasculinityConclusion: Contesting Slave Masculinity; Bibliography; Manuscript Records; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin; Library of Virginia; Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA; South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Newspapers; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index. |
Summary |
Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Psychology.
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Masculinity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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African American men -- Southern States -- Psychology -- History -- 19th century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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African American men -- Psychology |
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Masculinity |
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Enslaved persons -- Psychology |
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Southern States |
Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
History
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781108423984 |
ISBN |
9781108335294 (electronic bk.) |
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1108335292 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108539425 |
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1108539424 |
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9781108423984 (hardback) |
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9781108439244 (paperback) |
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