Joining places : slave neighborhoods in the old South
(Book)
Author
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780807831038 (cloth : alk. paper), 0807831034 (cloth : alk. paper), 9780807861790 (pbk.), 0807861790 (pbk.)
Physical Desc
x, 365 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Lexile measure
1220L
Status
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Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007].
Language
English
ISBN
9780807831038 (cloth : alk. paper), 0807831034 (cloth : alk. paper), 9780807861790 (pbk.), 0807861790 (pbk.)
Lexile measure
1220
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing, and storytelling, slaves fashioned their neighborhoods into the locus of slave society. Joining Places is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves. From these detailed accounts, Kaye tells the stories of men and women in love, "sweethearting, " "taking up, " "living together, " and marrying across plantation lines; striving to get right with God; carving out neighborhoods as a terrain of struggle; and working to overthrow the slaveholders' regime. Kaye's depiction of slaves' sense of place in the Natchez District of Mississippi reveals a slave society that comprised not a single, monolithic community but an archipelago of many neighborhoods. Demonstrating that such neighborhoods prevailed across the South, he reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship." -- Publisher description.
Target Audience
1220L,Lexile
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 306.362 KAY | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American neighborhoods -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- History.
Community life -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- History.
Community life -- Southern States -- Case studies.
Natchez (Miss. : District) -- Social conditions.
Natchez (Miss. : District) -- Social life and customs.
Neighborhoods -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- History.
Community life -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- History.
Community life -- Southern States -- Case studies.
Natchez (Miss. : District) -- Social conditions.
Natchez (Miss. : District) -- Social life and customs.
Neighborhoods -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- History.
Other Subjects
Enslaved persons -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Case studies.
Enslaved persons -- Mississippi -- Natchez (District) -- Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Case studies.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kaye, A. E. (2007). Joining places: slave neighborhoods in the old South . University of North Carolina Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaye, Anthony E. 2007. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. University of North Carolina Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaye, Anthony E. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kaye, Anthony E. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
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