Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum SouthHarvard University Press, 1 juni 2009 - 272 sidor Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were ultimately subject to the rule of their owners. Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Despite the constant threats of separation and the necessity of submission to the slaveowner, slave families managed to pass on essential lessons about enduring bondage with human dignity. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control. Born in Bondage gives us an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community. |
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19 | |
New Mothers and Fathers | 48 |
Young Children in the Quarter | 75 |
Education in the Middle Years | 107 |
To the Field | 131 |
Risk of Sale and Separation | 155 |
Young Love and Marriage | 177 |
Epilogue | 206 |
Abbreviations | 214 |
Notes | 215 |
265 | |
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Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South Marie Jenkins Schwartz Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South Marie Jenkins Schwartz Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2000 |
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Sida 30 - The pregnant women are always to do some work up to the time of their confinement, if it is only walking into the field and staying there.
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