Format:
1 online resource (xv, 384 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009127974
,
9781009123082
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9781009124256
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies on the American South
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2023)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009123082
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781009123082
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781009127974
