Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

by Anthony E. Kaye
ISBN-10:
0807861790
ISBN-13:
9780807861790
Pub. Date:
08/01/2009
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press, The
ISBN-10:
0807861790
ISBN-13:
9780807861790
Pub. Date:
08/01/2009
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press, The
Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

by Anthony E. Kaye
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Overview

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 pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves. From these detailed accounts, Kaye tells the stories of men and women in love, "sweethearting," "taking up," "living together," and marrying across plantation lines; striving to get right with God; carving out neighborhoods as a terrain of struggle; and working to overthrow the slaveholders' regime. Kaye's depiction of slaves' sense of place in the Natchez District of Mississippi reveals a slave society that comprised not a single, monolithic community but an archipelago of many neighborhoods. Demonstrating that such neighborhoods prevailed across the South, he reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807861790
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Publication date: 08/01/2009
Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile: 1220L (what's this?)

About the Author

Anthony E. Kaye (1962-2017) was associate professor of American history at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Neighborhoods
2 Intimate Relations
3 Divisions of Labor
4 Terrains of Struggle
5 Beyond Neighborhood
6 War and Emancipation
Epilogue
Appendix: Population, Land, and Labor
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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This is a boldly conceptual and deeply empirical book that refigures and advances some of the most important historiographical debates of the past thirty years in scholarship on slavery in the United States. It is ambitious, smart, and compelling.—Walter Johnson, Harvard University, author of Soul by Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

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