| Description |
1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Carter G. Woodson Institute series
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Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Alleviations -- Good mistresses and masters -- Mixed-race ancestry and long-term relationships -- Cities and industry -- pt. II. Offenses -- Family disruption -- Physical abuse -- Regimentation -- Contempt -- Deprivation -- pt. III. Responses -- Religion -- Dissidence -- Families -- The Black community -- Self-development -- pt. IV. Retrospect -- Oppression and self-determination. |
| Summary |
Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews -- conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers -- are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African Americans; thus the interviewees almost certainly spoke more frankly than they would otherwise have done. Dusinberre uses the interviews to assess the strategies by which slaves sought to survive, despite the severe constrictions bondage imposed upon their lives. Religion and escape were common means of coping with the indignity of family disruption, contempt, and the harsh realities of slavery. However, while Dusinberre recognizes the creativity and variety of slaves' responses to oppression, he acknowledges the dispiriting realities of the limits of slave resistance and agency. - Publisher. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Virginia. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
African Americans -- Virginia -- Interviews.
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African Americans. |
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Agent (Philosophy) -- Case studies.
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Agent (Philosophy) |
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Case studies.
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Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery. |
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History. |
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Virginia -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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Interviews.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dusinberre, William, 1930- Strategies for survival. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009 9780813928227 (DLC) 2008054102 (OCoLC)291908011 |
| ISBN |
9780813928364 (electronic book) |
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0813928362 (electronic book) |
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9780813928227 |
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0813928222 |
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