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The Quarters and the Fields - Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South (Paperback)
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The Quarters and the Fields - Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South (Paperback)
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"A fresh and inventive method of presenting some lesser-known
aspects of slavery to both scholars and students."--Ronald Traylor,
Southeastern Louisiana University "Pargas redefines the meaning of
'slave agency' to examine the varying ability of enslaved workers
to shape and protect their domestic arrangements."--Larry Hudson,
University of Rochester "The Quarters and the Fields" offers a
unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing
on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas
compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural
cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain,
rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types
of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in
turn shaped slaves' family life. By presenting a broader view of
the complex forces that shaped enslaved people's family lives, not
only from outside but also from within, this book takes an
inclusive approach to the slave agency debate. A comparative study
that examines the importance of time and place for slave families,
"The Quarters and the Fields" provides a means for understanding
them as they truly were: dynamic social units that were formed and
existed under different circumstances across time and space.
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