Families In Crisis In The Old South
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Families in Crisis in the Old South
Author | : Loren Schweninger |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780807835692 |
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Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
Sexual Violence and American Slavery
Author | : Shannon Eaves |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2024-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9798890887139 |
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It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of sexualized violence meant for themselves and others. Eaves mines a wealth of primary sources including autobiographies, diaries, court records, and more to show that rape and other forms of sexual exploitation entangled slaves and slave owners in battles over power to protect oneself and one's community, power to avenge hurt and humiliation, and power to punish and eliminate future threats. By placing sexual violence at the center of the systems of power and culture, Eaves shows how the South's rape culture was revealed in enslaved people's and their enslavers' interactions with one another and with members of their respective communities.
Bound in Wedlock
Author | : Tera W. Hunter |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674979246 |
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Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother
The Failure of Our Fathers
Author | : Victoria E. Ott |
Publsiher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780817321475 |
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"Examines the evolving position of non-elite whites in 19th Alabama society--from the state's creation through the end of the Civil War--through the lens of gender and family"--
The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic
Author | : Susan Castillo Street,Charles L. Crow |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2016-07-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137477743 |
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This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five distinguished scholars explore the Southern Gothic, under the categories of Poe and his Legacy; Space and Place; Race; Gender and Sexuality; and Monsters and Voodoo. The essays examine slavery and the laws that supported it, and stories of slaves who rebelled and those who escaped. Also present are the often-neglected issues of the Native American presence in the South, socioeconomic class, the distinctions among the several regions of the South, same-sex relationships, and norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not only iconic figures of Southern literature but also other less well-known writers, and examines gothic imagery in film and in contemporary television programmes such as True Blood and True Detective.
Black Masters A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Author | : Michael P. Johnson,James L. Roark |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1986-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393245486 |
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"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.
Kentucky Women
Author | : Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr. |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780820344539 |
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"Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development."--
Rethinking American Emancipation
Author | : William A. Link,James J. Broomall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107073036 |
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This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.