Sold down the river : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
Record details
- ISBN: 9780817317416 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0817317414 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780817385668 (electronic)
- ISBN: 0817385665 (electronic)
- Physical Description: x, 263 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery. |
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Subject: | Slavery > Chattahoochee River Valley. Slavery > Chattahoochee River Valley > History. Chattahoochee River Valley > History. |
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