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"SWING THE SICKLE FOR THE HARVEST IS RIPE"
GENDER AND SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM GEORGIA |
| By: |
Daina Ramey Berry |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£91.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0252031466 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780252031465 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 July, 2007 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South \u0022Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe\u0022 compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters' interests in sharing their workforce allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves' internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals important new ways of understanding what it meant to be a female or male slave, as well as how public and private aspects of slave life influenced each other on the plantation.A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White |
| Synopsis: |
Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South \u0022Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe\u0022 compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters' interests in sharing their workforce allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves' internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals important new ways of understanding what it meant to be a female or male slave, as well as how public and private aspects of slave life influenced each other on the plantation.A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Illinois Press |
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