This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South (Galaxy Books)

Type

Book

Authors

Leslie Howard Owens

ISBN 10

0195022459

ISBN 13

9780195022452

Tags

United States, Slavery & Emancipation, African-American Studies, Sociology, International & World Politics, International Relations

Description

Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865. - from Amzon

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