Download or read book Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South written by Stacey K. Close and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the South. Interwoven with this major argument are two subthemes. One centers on the fact that by the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some of the chief transmitters of Africanism; the other focuses on how gender based distinctions of the elderly became blurred. Although the roles of the elderly often changed, elderly slaves contributed to the plantation economy. It is also true that those old people who were incapacitated posed serious economic and social concerns for owners, although many of the problems of elderly care were solved by the compassion of slave community members (Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1992; revised with new preface and index)
Download or read book Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South written by Stacey Kevin Close and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role and Status of Elderly Male Slaves in the Plantation South written by Stacey K. Close and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Slavery and Disability written by Dea H. Boster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary record, analyzing how concepts of race, disability, and power converged in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Slaves with physical and mental impairments often faced unique limitations and conditions in their diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation as property. Slaves with disabilities proved a significant challenge to white authority figures, torn between the desire to categorize them as different or defective and the practical need to incorporate their "disorderly" bodies into daily life. Being physically "unfit" could sometimes allow slaves to escape the limitations of bondage and oppression, and establish a measure of self-control. Furthermore, ideas about and reactions to disability—appearing as social construction, legal definition, medical phenomenon, metaphor, or masquerade—highlighted deep struggles over bodies in bondage in antebellum America.
Download or read book The Plantation Mistress written by Catherine Clinton and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1984-02-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
Download or read book Old Massa s People written by Orland Kay Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Age and American Slavery written by David Stefan Doddington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how age shaped the institution of slavery and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike.
Download or read book Medicine and Slavery written by Todd Lee Savitt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination. In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.
Download or read book Voices of Carolina Slave Children written by Nancy Rhyne and published by Sandlapper Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slave narratives compiled from interviews in the Works Projects Administration (WPA) files recorded eyewitness accounts of 19th century American slavery. Elderly ex-slaves recounted memories of their childhood during their enslaved period to convey a powerful image of their lives and daily activities. They describe work, games, food, clothing, thoughts about their situation and the Civil War, and what freedom gave to each one of them. These stories present brief glimpses into the lives and customs of enslaved children on North and South Carolina plantations.
Download or read book A Southern Planter written by Susan Dabney Smedes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1887, these are the memories of Susan Dabney Smedes of her father as a slave owner and how well he treated his slaves, along with her memories of life on a southern plantation. Includes Mississippi, holiday times on the plantation, refugees, slaves and war times.
Download or read book Slavery by Another Name written by Douglas A. Blackmon and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Download or read book The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations written by William Dosité Postell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isaac Franklin Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South written by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War written by N. B. De Saussure and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Plantation Days is a memoir in the form of a letter that Nancy Bostick writes reflecting on her life on a plantation and her marriage and parenthood afterward during the Civil War. Excerpt: The South as I knew it has disappeared; the New South has risen from its ashes, filled with the energetic spirit of a new age.
Download or read book The Slave Community written by John W. Blassingame and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Old Plantation written by John George Clinkscales and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Aunt Phebe Uncle Tom and Others written by Essie Collins Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After In this book there is an effort to present as thev have not: hitherto been presented, the conditions as they exist today on some of the typical plantations of the South. Former slaves have been sought out and pho tographed as they were found in and out of their cabin homes, and a little of the history of each of these inter esting and often pathetic figures has been given. In nearly all of them there is a glimpse of a surpassing human affection and loyalty - a something that gilds the meanness of attire, the humbleness of the home and the lack of mental vision. Surely, if these former slaves have missed something that the younger members of their race enjoy, they have graces that those born to freedom do not always show. The efforts at religious instruction among the ne groes bv the Episcopal and other Christian churches are an interesting study. Great credit is due to the clergy and masters of the South for zeal in bringing the Gospel to these people during the days of their slavery. The masters built and maintained chapels, and the clergymen preached in the simplest possible language so that the message could be understood. The sermons that are reproduced will show how they did it; the effect is found in the religious ecstasy of their hearers, as expressed in their lives, their worship, their speech, their memorizing of chapters in the Bible and their hymns of praise, simple in structure and tvpical of the produc tions of all primitive peoples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
