Waubonsee Community College

Daily life of African American slaves in the Antebellum South, Paul E. Teed and Melissa Ladd Teed

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214), filmography (page 214) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Daily life of African American slaves in the Antebellum South

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Paul E. Teed and Melissa Ladd Teed

The Greenwood Press Daily life through history series

"This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery from the perspective of the slaves themselves. Readers can explore the family life, religious beliefs, political activities, intellectual aspirations, material possessions, and recreational pursuits of enslaved people. The book shows that enslaved people were tightly constrained by the harsh realities of the oppressive system under which they lived but that they found ways to forge lives of their own."--, Provided by publiser

1. Economic Life -- The Planters' Economy -- The Agricultural Cycle -- The Chesapeake and Tobacco -- Cotton -- Sugar -- Rice -- Slave Hiring -- Reproduction and the "Fancy Trade" -- Domestic Work -- Independent Production -- Document: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853) -- 2. Domestic Life -- The Slave Trade -- Bonds of Affection -- Courtship and Marriage -- Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Parenting Enslaved Children Document: Henry Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) -- 3. Material Life -- Food -- Slave Quarters -- Clothing -- Documents: Interview with Tempie Cummins (1937) and Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States (1837) -- 4. Religious Life -- The African Spiritual Legacy -- Christianity and Conversion -- Origins of the Black Church -- Religion and Daily Life -- Religion and Rebellion -- Document: Peter Randolph, Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (1855) -- 5. Political Life -- Paternalism: The Ideology of Plantation Government -- The Politics of Fieldwork -- The Politics of the Big House -- Disrupting the Plantation Hierarchy -- Enslaved People and American Politics -- Document: Louis Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (1896) -- 6. Intellectual Life -- Slavery and Literacy in the Antebellum South -- The Meanings of Literacy -- Slave Narratives: Ex-Slaves as Organic Intellectuals -- Folk Medicine: Healing Knowledge in the Slave Community -- Document: Thomas Jones, The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (1862) -- 7. Recreational Life -- Music -- Dancing Holidays and Festivities -- Children's Games -- Storytelling -- Document: William Wells Brown, My Southern Home (1880)