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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Examines different kinds of agriculture and the different situations of the enslaved associated with those crops: Fairfax County Virginia (mixed grains), the Georgetown district in South Carolina (rice), and St. James Parish Louisiana (sugar)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African American families-- Southern States-- Social conditions-- History
Agriculture-- Social aspects-- Southern States-- History
Geography-- Social aspects-- Southern States-- History