ISBN:
9781009127974
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (402 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3/620973
Abstract:
This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Enslaved -- 1 "As to those more advanced in life": Old Age in Slavery -- 2 "Old and broken now -- no tongue can tell how much Isuffer": Sale, Abandonment, and Neglect -- 3 "Young people think that old people are fools but old people know that young people are fools": Intergenerational Conflict Among the Enslaved -- 4 "Don't kill such an old creature as I" -- 5 "You wont notice me now but you'll wish you had": Conjure, Community, and Intergenerational Conflict -- 6 "The summer of my life was passing away": Resistance, Old Age, and Surviving Slavery -- Part II Enslavers -- 7 "Old God damn son-of-a-bitch, she gone on down to hell": Elderly Enslavers and Enslaved Resistance -- 8 "They are getting too old and weak": Aged Mastery and White Conflict -- 9 "Something must be done with the old man": Dominion After Death -- 10 "Let our women and old men… be disabused of the false and unfounded notion that slavery is sinful": Emancipation Contested -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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