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EBOOK STEVENSON LIFE IN BLACK & WHITE P
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199923649
EAN: 9ADC582DEB
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Stron: 496
Data wydania: 1996
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Family and Community in the Slave South
Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life        in the American South--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and        slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of        southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County,        Virginia and the surrounding vicinity are the focus. Here the region's most        illustrious families helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that became        characteristic of the entire region while mingling with yeoman farmers of German,        Scotch-Irish, and Irish descent, and free black families who lived alongside        abolitionist Quakers and thousands of slaves. Stevenson brilliantly recounts their        stories as she builds the complex picture of their intertwined lives, revealing how        their combined histories guaranteed Loudon's role in important state, regional, and        national events and controversies.In exploring the central role of the family,        Brenda Stevenson offers a wealth of insight. But most important, the author breaks        new ground in her depiction of slave family life. Following the lead of historian        Herbert Gutman, most scholars have accepted the idea that, like whites, slaves        embraced the nuclear family, both as a living reality and an ideal. Stevenson        destroys this notion, showing that the harsh realities of slavery allowed little        possibility of a such a domestic arrangement. Far more important were extended kin        networks and female-headed households.Meticulously researched, insightful, and        moving, Life in Black and White offers our most detailed portrait yet of the reality        of southern life.

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