ISBN:
1934110078
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9781934110072
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 137 p)
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map
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina
DDC:
306.73/4086250975609034
Keywords:
Plantation life History 19th century
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Courtship History 19th century
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Slaves Biography
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Slaves Social life and customs 19th century
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Love History 19th century
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Couples Biography
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African Americans Social life and customs 19th century
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African Americans Biography
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African Americans ; North Carolina ; Biography
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African Americans ; North Carolina ; Social life and customs ; 19th century
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Couples ; North Carolina ; Biography
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Courtship ; North Carolina ; History ; 19th century
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Love ; North Carolina ; History ; 19th century
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Slaves ; North Carolina ; Biography
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Slaves ; North Carolina ; Social life and customs ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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North Carolina Social life and customs 19th century
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North Carolina Biography
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Biografie
Abstract:
Through an examination of various couples who were forced to live in slavery, Rebecca J. Fraser argues that slaves found ways to conduct successful courting relationships. In its focus on the processes of courtship among the enslaved, this study offers further insight into the meanings that structured intimate lives. Establishing their courtships, often across plantations, the enslaved men and women of antebellum North Carolina worked within and around the slave system to create and maintain meaningful personal relationships that were both of and apart from the world of the plantation. They cl
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Love Seems with Them More to be an Eager Desire": Racialized Stereotypes in the Slaveholding South; 2 Asking Master Mack to Court: Competing Spheres of Influence; 3 Getting Out to Play and Courting All They Pleased: The Social and Temporal Geographies of Enslaved Courtship; 4 Taking a Whipping for Lily: Courtship as a Narrative of Resistance; 5 A Red Satin Ribbon Tied around My Finger: The Meaning of the Wedding Ceremony; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-132) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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