1870320727     

Old age and American slavery / David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024

1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-12797-4 (ebook); 978-1-009-12308-2 (hardback); 978-1-009-12425-6 (paperback)

978-1-009-12308-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1409393635     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009127974

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LOC-SH: Enslaved older people -- Social conditions -- United States ; Slaveholders -- Social conditions -- United States ; Older people -- Social conditions -- United States ; Slavery -- History -- United States ; United States -- Race relations -- History

Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were affected by concerns with age. In examining how individuals, families, and communities felt about the aging process and dealt with elders, David Stefan Doddington emphasizes the complex social relations that developed in a slave society. In connecting old age to the arguments of Black activists, abolitionists, enslavers, and their propagandists, the book reveals how representations of old age, and experiences of aging, spoke to wider struggles relating to mastery, paternalism, resistance, and survival in slavery. The book asks us to rethink long-standing narratives relating to networks of solidarity in the American South and it illuminates the violent and exploitative nature of American slavery.