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New raiments of self : African American clothing in the antebellum South / Helen Bradley Foster

ebrary, Inc

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1997

Online-Ressource (ix, 359 p) : ill., ports ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-353) and index

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-85973-184-8 ; 1-85973-189-9 ; 1-84788-880-1 (ebook : No price); 978-1-84788-880-8 ( : ebook : No price)

978-1-85973-184-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 873906589     

Online-Ausg.

Palo Alto, Calif : ebrary, 2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.2752/9781847888808

GT617.S59

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LOC-SH: Slaves -- Clothing -- Southern States ; African Americans -- Clothing -- Southern States ; African Americans -- Clothing -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; African Americans -- Social life and customs

Introduction: Warping a Folk History 1 Beginning in Africa1 2 Constructing Cloth and Clothing in the Antebellum South 3 Wearing Antebellum Clothing 4 Having Footwear 5 Embellishing the Head2 6 Crowning the Person 7 Clothing as the Weft of a Folk History Epilogue Appendix I: Glossary of Selected Trade-Cloth Terms Used by Europeans Appendix II: Annotated Glossary of Terms Related to Textile Manufacture and Clothing taken from the Narratives Appendix III: Cloth Dyes Reported in the Narratives

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This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during the thirty years before the American Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably oral narratives recorded in the 1930s, this rich account shows that African Americans demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the role clothing played in demarcating age, sex, status, work, recreation, as well as special secular and sacred events. Testimonies offer proof of African Americans' vast technical skills in producing cloth and clothing, which served both as a fundamental reflection of the peoples' Afrocentric craftsmanship and aesthetic sensibilities, and as a reaction to their particular place in American society. Previous work on clothing in this period has tended to focus on white viewpoints, and as a consequence the dress worn by the enslaved has generally been seen as a static standard imposed by white overlords. This excellent study departs from conventional interpretations to show that the clothing of the enslaved changed over time, served multiple functions and represented customs and attitudes which evolved distinctly from within African American communities. In short, it represents a vital contribution to African American studies, as well as to dress and textile history, and cultural and folklore studies