عنوان

To have and to hold :

(Number (ISBN

0820318302

(Number (ISBN

9780820318301

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Title Proper

To have and to hold :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

slave work and family life in antebellum South Carolina /

First Statement of Responsibility

Larry E. Hudson, Jr

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxii, 241 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index

Text of Note

1. For Better for Worse: The Slaves' World of Work -- 2. For Richer for Poorer: The Family as an Economic Unit -- 3. In Sickness and in Health: Disease, Death, and Family Disruption -- 4. To Love and to Cherish: The Slave Family -- Conclusion: To Have and to Hold

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Text of Note

Filled with details of slaves' social values, family formation, work patterns, "internal economies," and domestic production, To Have and to Hold is based on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, emphasizing wherever possible the recollections of former slaves. Although their private world was never immune to intervention from the white world, Hudson demonstrates a relationship between the agricultural productivity of slaves, in family situations that range from simple to complex formations, and the accumulation of personal property and social status within slave communities. By capitalizing on these opportunities for autonomy, says Hudson, slaves not only tempered some of the daily brutalities of their lives but also prepared themselves for freedom, for it was the family group that most powerfully influenced the personalities of the slaves and it was in the slave quarters that the foundations of an African American culture were established

Text of Note

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, Larry E. Hudson Jr. covers a wide range of economic and social topics related to the opportunities given to slaves to produce and trade their own food and other goods - contingent on first completing the master's assigned work for the day. In particular, Hudson shows how these opportunities were exploited by the slaves to both increase their control over their family life and to gain status among their fellow slaves

Plantation life-- South Carolina-- History-- 19th century

Slaves-- Family relationships-- South Carolina

Slaves-- South Carolina-- Social conditions

South Carolina, History, 1775-1865

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Edition

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Book number

Hudson, Larry E.,1952-

Date of Transaction

20160712062033.0

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[Book]

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