The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South /

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

In The Quarters and the Fields, Damian Pargas provides a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, he compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pargas, Damian Alan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South.
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > Family relationships > Southern States.
Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
African American families > Southern States > Social conditions.
Agriculture > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Geography > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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