|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies
|
Not currently available
Seen/Unseen - Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,721
Discovery Miles 27 210
|
|
|
Seen/Unseen - Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians (Hardcover)
Series: New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that
created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The
hundreds of men and women kept in bondage by the Cobb-Lamar family,
one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families in
antebellum America, labored in households and on plantations that
spanned Georgia. Fragments of their lives were captured in
thousands of letters written between family members, who recorded
the external experiences of the enslaved but never fully reckoned
with their humanity. Drawn together for the first time, these
fragments reveal a community that maintained bonds of affection,
kinship, and support across vast distances of space, striving to
make their experiences in slavery more bearable. Christopher R.
Lawton, Laura E. Nelson, and Randy L. Reid have meticulously
excavated the vast Cobb Family Papers at the University of Georgia
to introduce into the historical record the lives of Aggy Carter
and her father George, Rachel Lamar Cole, Alfred Putnam, Berry
Robinson, Bob Scott, and Sylvia Shropshire and her daughter Polly.
Each experienced enslavement in ways that were at once both
remarkably different and similar. Seen/Unseen tells their stories
through four interconnected chapters, each supported by a careful
selection of primary source documents and letters. After mapping
the underlying structures that supported the wealth and power of
the Cobb-Lamar family, the authors then explore how those same
pathways were used by the enslaved to function within the existing
system, confront the limitations placed on them, challenge what
they felt were its worst injustices, and try to shape the
boundaries of their own lives.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(3)
