It's OK to Leave the Plantation

It's OK to Leave the Plantation

Author: Clarence Mason Weaver

Publisher: Reeder Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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"This book discusses some of the family and environmental contributions that led to my change from liberal to conservative. It also discusses how Black Americans came from slavery to freedom [and] ... examines the 'Plantation mentality' that still plagues us today."--Preface, p. i.


Within the Plantation Household

Within the Plantation Household

Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 0807864226

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Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.


Runaway Slaves

Runaway Slaves

Author: John Hope Franklin

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2000-07-20

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780195084511

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This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.


The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery

The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery

Author: Gwen Bergner

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478005186

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This special issue interrogates the plantation as a form, logic, and technology that continues to produce inequalities. Attending to the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, contributors follow the evolution of plantation slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through its subsequent iterations in the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, and into the neoliberal present, where the carceral state props up fantasies of postracialism. The contributors rethink the necro- and biopolitics of plantation slavery, uncovering laborers' strategies of self-determination, affiliation, and communication in spite of the plantation's mechanisms of control. Essay topics include the circulation of a weekly newspaper published by black tenant farmers in the 1920s, a nineteenth-century trial of an enslaved woman, and the fetish-making of Haitian revolutionary Fran ois Makandal. Reconsidering the time and space of the plantation, contributors analyze Western processes of racialization and uncover the experience and agency of the oppressed. This search for modes of being within the plantation structure offers one way to rewrite histories of slavery. Contributors. Monique Allewaert, Gwen Bergner, Benjamin Child, Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Julius B. Fleming Jr., Jarvis C. McInnis, Zita Nunes, Roberta Wolfson


Landscape of Slavery

Landscape of Slavery

Author: Angela D. Mack

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781570037207

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Through eighty-nine color plates and six thematic essays, this collection examines depictions of plantations, plantation views, and related slave imagery in the context of the history of landscape painting in America, while addressing the impact of these images on US race relations.


Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

Author: Dale W. Tomich

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1469663139

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Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes—from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraiba Valley—demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy. Artists and mapmakers documented in surprising detail how the physical organization of the landscape itself made possible the increased exploitation of enslaved labor. Reading these images today, one sees how technologies combined with evolving conceptions of plantation management that reduced enslaved workers to black bodies. Planter control of enslaved people's lives and labor maximized the production of each crop in a calculated system of production. Nature, too, was affected: the massive increase in the scale of production and new systems of cultivation increased the land's output. Responding to world economic conditions, the replication of slave-based commodity production became integral to the creation of mass markets for cotton, sugar, and coffee, which remain at the center of contemporary life.


A Tale of Two Plantations

A Tale of Two Plantations

Author: Richard S. Dunn

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0674735366

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Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.


Speaking for the Enslaved

Speaking for the Enslaved

Author: Antoinette T Jackson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1315419963

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Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites—including the one on which that the ancestors of First Lady Michelle Obama lived—everyday acts of living, learning, and surviving profoundly challenge the way American heritage has been constructed and represented. A fascinating, critical view of the ways culture, history, social policy, and identity influence heritage sites and the business of heritage research management in public spaces.