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To Have and to Hold - Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (Hardcover)
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To Have and to Hold - Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (Hardcover)
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Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low,
middle, and up-country South Carolina, Larry E. Hudson Jr. covers a
wide range of economic and social topics related to the
opportunities given to slaves to produce and trade their own food
and other goods - contingent on first completing the master's
assigned work for the day. In particular, Hudson shows how these
opportunities were exploited by the slaves to both increase their
control over their family life and to gain status among their
fellow slaves. Filled with details of slaves' social values, family
formation, work patterns, "internal economies", and domestic
production, To Have and to Hold is based on a wide variety of
primary and secondary sources, emphasizing wherever possible the
recollections of former slaves. Although their private world was
never immune to intervention from the white world, Hudson
demonstrates a relationship between the agricultural productivity
of slaves, in family situations that range from simple to complex
formations, and the accumulation of personal property and social
status within slave communities. By capitalizing on these
opportunities for autonomy, says Hudson, slaves not only tempered
some of the daily brutalities of their lives but also prepared
themselves for freedom, for it was the family group that most
powerfully influenced the personalities of the slaves and it was in
the slave quarters that the foundations of an African American
culture were established.
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