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The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South Cover Image Book

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

Pargas, Damian Alan. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780813035147
  • ISBN: 0813035147
  • Physical Description: xi, 259 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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