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Slave against Slave - Plantation Violence in the Old South (Hardcover)
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Slave against Slave - Plantation Violence in the Old South (Hardcover)
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In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves
in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions
of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity.
Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence
did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary
records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved
populations. Slave against Slave explores the roots of and
motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves,
masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in
check. Far from focusing on violence alone, Forret's work also adds
depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved,
revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence and punish those
who engaged in it. Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives,
slaveholders' journals, travelers' accounts, and church and court
records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of
slave-against-slave violence prior to the Civil War. A diverse
range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over
status differences, to disagreements originating at work and in
private, to discord relating to the slave economy and the web of
debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital
disputes, and adulterous affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of
explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople's constructions of
masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among
slaves that would have been familiar to southern white men and
women, had they cared to acknowledge it. Though many generations of
scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and
against whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have
remained largely unexplored. Forret's analysis of intraracial slave
conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave
communities, opening a new line of inquiry into the study of
American slavery.
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