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In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?,Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed.
List of contents
Introduction: The Black Family in the Public Imagination: What's Slavery and Slavery Scholarship Got to Do with It?
Beginnings
Chapter One: Traditions from Whence They Came: Marriage and Family in Western/Central Africa at the Time of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter Two: The Colonial Slave Family: Foundations and Creations
Chapter Three: Traditions of Resistance and Family
The Antebellum Familial Experience
Chapter Four: Antebellum Courtship and Marital Rituals
Chapter Five: Antebellum Family Life
Chapter Six: Death and Resurrection
Conclusion: Bob Samuels' American Family
About the author
Brenda Stevenson, professor of history at UCLA, is senior editor of the three volume Encyclopedia of Black Women in America (2005), a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic title, and several books in African American history, including Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996), winner of the 1997 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize for the Study of Human Rights in North America, and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots (2013) winner of the OAH 2014 James A. Rawley Prize as Best Book on History of Race Relations for 2013.
Summary
In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed.
