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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps - Couverture souple

Dusinberre, William

 
9780820322100: Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0820322105 ISBN 13 : 9780820322100
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2000

Synopsis

Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment. Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers’ letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.

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À propos de l'auteur

WILLIAM DUSINBERRE is Reader Emeritus in American History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure and Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865.

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Éditeur
University of Georgia Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0820322105
ISBN 13 
9780820322100
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
576
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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