What is a Slave Society?

What is a Slave Society?

Author: Noel Emmanuel Lenski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-10

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1107144892

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Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.


Sociology for the South

Sociology for the South

Author: George Fitzhugh

Publisher: Richmond, Virginia : [s.n.]

Published: 1854

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Sociology for the South: Or, The Failure of Free Society by George Fitzhugh, first published in 1854, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.


Society and Culture in the Slave South

Society and Culture in the Slave South

Author: J. William Harris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1134911858

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Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a `paternalistic' society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and anthropology to investigate the nature of plantation and family life in the South. Explanatory notes guide the reader through each essay and the Editor's introduction places the work in its historiographical context.


Slavery and Social Death

Slavery and Social Death

Author: Orlando Patterson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0674916131

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Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Praise for the previous edition: “Densely packed, closely argued, and highly controversial in its dissent from much of the scholarly conventional wisdom about the function and structure of slavery worldwide.” —Boston Globe “There can be no doubt that this rich and learned book will reinvigorate debates that have tended to become too empirical and specialized. Patterson has helped to set out the direction for the next decades of interdisciplinary scholarship.” —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books “This is clearly a major and important work, one which will be widely discussed, cited, and used. I anticipate that it will be considered among the landmarks in the study of slavery, and will be read by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists—as well as many other scholars and students.” —Stanley Engerman


Masterless Men

Masterless Men

Author: Keri Leigh Merritt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 110718424X

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This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.


The Political Economy of Slavery

The Political Economy of Slavery

Author: Eugene D. Genovese

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780819562081

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A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.


The First Black Slave Society

The First Black Slave Society

Author: Hilary Beckles

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789766405854

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Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.


Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 0684856573

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The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880 has justly been called a classic.


Joining Places

Joining Places

Author: Anthony E. Kaye

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0807877603

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In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing, and storytelling, slaves fashioned their neighborhoods into the locus of slave society. Joining Places is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves. From these detailed accounts, Kaye tells the stories of men and women in love, "sweethearting," "taking up," "living together," and marrying across plantation lines; striving to get right with God; carving out neighborhoods as a terrain of struggle; and working to overthrow the slaveholders' regime. Kaye's depiction of slaves' sense of place in the Natchez District of Mississippi reveals a slave society that comprised not a single, monolithic community but an archipelago of many neighborhoods. Demonstrating that such neighborhoods prevailed across the South, he reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship.