The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Studies in Modern Capitalism)
Description
Drawing on demographic evidence and slave narratives, this study reexamines the structure and endurance of African-American families under slavery and emancipation. It challenges conventional interpretations by focusing on often-overlooked small plantations and export regions, while showing how profit-driven policies—including forced migration, interference in marriage and childrearing, sexual exploitation, inadequate provisioning, and environmental hardship—placed families under continual strain. The analysis also traces how the Civil War and Reconstruction introduced new threats to family stability and survival. Rigorous and revisionist in approach, the book offers a complex account of family persistence, vulnerability, and adaptation in the transition from slavery to freedom.
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paperback
Maison des sciences de l'homme/Cambridge University Press
Published Jan 1, 2003
368 pages
ISBN: 9780521012164
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
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