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Author Pargas, Damian Alan.

Title The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South / Damian Alan Pargas.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New perspectives on the history of the South
New perspectives on the history of the South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families -- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South -- The nature of agricultural labor -- Family contact during working hours -- Family-based internal economies -- Slaveholding across time and space -- Marriage strategies and family formation -- Forced separation -- Weathering different storms.
Summary Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the 19th-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life.
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- Southern States.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships.
Southern States.
Enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
Plantation life.
History.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
Slavery.
African American families -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- History.
African American families.
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Geography -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
Geography -- Social aspects.
Geography.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Pargas, Damian Alan. Quarters and the fields. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010 9780813035147 (DLC) 2010017081 (OCoLC)609872080
ISBN 9780813036588 (electronic book)
0813036585 (electronic book)
9780813035147
0813035147