ISBN:
9781498579469
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
New Studies in Southern History Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3620975509034
Keywords:
Slavery-Virginia-History-19th century
Abstract:
This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.
Abstract:
Cover -- Setting Slavery's Limits -- Series Page -- Setting Slavery's Limits: Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801-1860 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Paternalism and Physical Confrontations -- Violations of Rights -- Hired-out Owners and Overseers -- Failure of Paternalism -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Masculinity and Physical Confrontations -- Asserting Masculinity -- Reasserting Masculinity -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Resistance to Sexual Exploitation -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Enslaved Women's Violence and the Household -- Failing to Understand Enslaved Women's Resistance -- Tensions within Households -- Rationalizing Away Enslaved Women's Violence -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Protecting White Supremacy -- Fear of Cross-Racial Alliances -- Protecting the Elites and the Color Line -- Protecting Slave Power -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author.
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