African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation

Klappentext This book calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family. Zusammenfassung Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the slave family have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and exaggeration of slave agency. Using population trends and slave narratives! she identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Slave trading and forced labor migrations; 2. Family diasporas and parenthood lost; 3. Malnutrition, ecological risks, and slave mortality; 4. Reproductive exploitation and child mortality; 5. Slave household subsistence and women's work; 6. The impacts of Civil War on slave families; 7. The risks of emancipation for black families; 8. Reconstruction threats to black family survival; Theoretical reprise.

Product details

• Authors: Wilma A. Dunaway, Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute Dunaway
• Assisted by: Maurice Aymard (Editor), Jacques Revel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2003
• EAN: 9780521812764
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81276-4
• No. of pages: 382
• Series: Studies in Modern Capitalism
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries