Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By Anthony E. Kaye.
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 pensio...
ISBN(s)
0807861790, 9780807861790
