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Cultivation and Culture - Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Paperback)
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Cultivation and Culture - Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Paperback)
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies
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So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that
it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to
the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding
it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of
slavery - historians, anthropologists, and sociologists - to
explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New
World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of
slavery and the lives of African-American slaves. Selected from a
conference on comparative slavery at the University of Maryland
that set the agenda for the next decades' research in this field,
the essays focus on the inter-relationship between the demands of
particular crops, the organisation of labour, the nature of the
labour force and the character of agricultural technology. They
reveal the full complexity of the institution of chattel bondage in
the New World and suggest why and how slavery varied from place to
place and time to time. What these scholars show is that although
work in the slave owners' fields accounted for most of the slaves'
labouring time, slaves also worked for themselves and their
independent economic activities had far reaching consequences. By
producing food for themselves and others, tending cash crops,
raising livestock, manufacturing finished goods, marketing their
own products, consuming and saving the proceeds, and bequething
property to their descendents, slaves took control of a large part
of their lives. In many ways their independent economic endeavours
offered a foundation for their domestic and commuity life,
determining the social structure of slave society and providing a
material basis for their distinctive culture. In exploring both the
work that slaves performed for their owners and the work they did
for themselves, Cultivation and Culture sheds new light on the
origins and development of African-American culture and provides a
new understanding of the African-American experience in slavery.
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