ISBN:
9781648431753
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Prairie View A & M University series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lundberg, John R Texas lowcountry
DDC:
305.800976409034
Keywords:
Slavery History 19th century
;
Freed persons Social conditions 19th century
;
HISTORY / United States / General
;
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
;
Amerikanische Geschichte
;
Bürgerkriege
;
Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
;
American Civil War
;
History of the Americas
;
Regional & national history
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Brazoria County (Tex.) Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
Fort Bend County (Tex.) Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
Matagorda County (Tex.) Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
Wharton County (Tex.) Race relations 19th century
;
History
Abstract:
"In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822-1895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas he terms the lowcountry-an area encompassing the lower reaches of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries as they wend their way toward the Gulf of Mexico through what is today Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties. In the two decades before the Civil War, European immigrants, particularly Germans, poured into Texas, sometimes bringing with them cultural ideals that complicated the story of slavery throughout large swaths of the state. By contrast, 95 percent of the white population of the lowcountry came from other parts of the United States, predominantly the slaveholding states of the American South. By 1861, more than 70 percent of this regional population were enslaved people-the heaviest such concentration west of the Mississippi. These demographics established the Texas Lowcountry as a distinct region in terms of its population and social structure. Part one of The Texas Lowcountry explores the development of the region as a borderland, an area of competing cultures and peoples, between 1822 and 1840. The second part is arranged topically and chronicles the history of the enslavers and the enslaved in the lowcountry between 1840 and 1865. The final section focuses on the experiences of freed people in the region during the Reconstruction era, which ended in the lowcountry in 1895. In closely examining this unique pocket of Texas, Lundberg provides a new and much needed region-specific study of the culture of enslavement and the African American experience"--
Description / Table of Contents:
A Borderlands, 1822-1840 -- Carving out a Plantation Society -- An Enslaver's Rebellion -- Agents of Change: The Tipping Point -- A Deep South Society, 1840-1865 -- Gone to Texas in Chains: Forced Migration into the Lowcountry -- Neighboring Plantations: The White Society and Geography of the Texas Lowcountry -- Extracting Every Ounce of Profit: Slavery's Capitalism in the Texas Lowcountry -- Complex Households: Gender, Sex, and Slavery in the Texas Lowcountry -- The Long Struggle: Resistance and Emancipation in the Texas Lowcountry -- Reconstruction, 1865-1895 -- The Struggle for Equality -- The Places in Between -- The Birth of Jim Crow -- Conclusion: Ain't No More 'Cane on the Brazos.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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