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Women's Work, Men's Work - Informal Slave Economics of Lowcountry Georgia (Hardcover, New)
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Women's Work, Men's Work - Informal Slave Economics of Lowcountry Georgia (Hardcover, New)
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In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of
bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as
producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave
economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the
Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to
the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system of
informal slave economies had reached the point that it would
henceforth dominate Savannah's political agenda until the Civil War
and emancipation. The daily battles of bondpeople to secure rights
as producers and consumers reflected and reinforced the integrity
of the private lives they were determined to fashion for
themselves, Wood posits. Their families formed the essential base
upon which, and for which, they organized their informal economies.
An expanding market in Savannah provided opportunities for them to
negotiate terms for the sale of their labor and produce, and for
them to purchase the goods and services they sought. In considering
the quasi-autonomous economic activities of bondpeople, Wood
outlines the equally significant, but quite different, roles of
bondwomen and bondmen in organizing these economies. She also
analyzes the influence of evangelical Protestant Christianity on
bondpeople, and the effects of the fusion of religious and economic
morality on their circumstances. For a combination of practical and
religious reasons, Wood finds, informal slave economies, with their
impact on whites, became the single most important issue in
Savannah politics. She contends that, by the 1820s, bondpeople were
instrumental in defining the political agenda of a divided city--a
significant, if unintentional, achievement.
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