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Slavery and Class in the American South - A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 (Hardcover)
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Slavery and Class in the American South - A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 (Hardcover)
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"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of
society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to
associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point
of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their
respective masters." Henry Bibb, fugitive slave, editor, and
antislavery activist, stated this in his Narrative of the Life and
Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849). In William L. Andrews's
magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more
than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family,
skills, and connections made for social and economic differences
among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclosed
class-based reasons for violence that broke out between "impudent,"
"gentleman," and "lady" slaves and their resentful "mean masters."
Andrews's far-reaching book shows that status and class played key
roles in the self- and social awareness and in the processes of
liberation portrayed in the narratives of the most celebrated
fugitives from U.S. slavery, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet
Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and William and Ellen Craft. Slavery
and Class in the American South explains why social and economic
distinctions developed and how they functioned among the enslaved.
Noting that the majority of the slave narrators came from the
higher echelons of the enslaved, Andrews also pays close attention
to the narratives that have received the least notice from
scholars, those from the most exploited class, the "field hands."
By examining the lives of the most and least acclaimed heroes and
heroines of the slave narrative, Andrews shows how the dividing
edge of social class cut two ways, sometimes separating upper and
lower strata of slaves to their enslavers' advantage, but at other
times fueling pride, aspiration, and a sense of just deserts among
some of the enslaved that could be satisfied by nothing less than
complete freedom. The culmination of a career spent studying
African American literature, this comprehensive study of the
antebellum slave narrative offers a ground-breaking consideration
of a unique genre of American literature.
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