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Chains of Love - Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina (Hardcover)
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Chains of Love - Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina (Hardcover)
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Historians have traditionally neglected relationships between slave
men and women during the antebellum period. In Chains of Love,
historian Emily West remedies this situation by investigating the
social and cultural history of slave relationships in the very
heart of the South. Focusing on South Carolina, West deals directly
with the most intimate areas of the slave experience including
courtship, love and affecton between spouses, the abuse of slave
women by white men, and the devastating consequences of forced
separations. Slaves fought these separations through cross-gender
bonding and cross-plantation marriages, illustrating West's thesis
about slave marriage as a fierce source of resistance to the
oppression of slavery in general. Making expert use of sources such
as the Works Progress Administration narratives, slave
autobiographies, slave owner records, and church records, this
book-length study is the first to focus on the primacy of spousal
support as a means for facing oppression. Chains of Love provides
telling insights into the nature of the slave family that emerged
from these tensions, celebrates its strength, and reveals new
dimensions to the slaves' struggle for freedom.
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