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Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South(The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South(The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)


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This title remaps slave society. In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed across the South, Kaye reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship. This is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves.

About the Author :
ANTHONY E. KAYE is assistant professor of American history at Pennsylvania State University.

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"Joining Places offers a new approach to familiar questions about the character of slave society and community. . . . [It] demonstrates how 'neighborhood' shaped slaves' work and socialization, their creation of marriage and family ties, and the resistance they offered to slaveholders and the slave regime." -- Frederick Douglass Book Prize Committee "[Kaye[ consults a heretofore-neglected source of testimony from the newly freed slaves: the US Pensions Bureau files of African American soldiers who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. . . . Recommended." -- CHOICE "A detailed portrait of slave men and women venturing beyond the limits of their master's domain to adjoining plantations. . . . An important contribution to the scholarship on slavery. Given the merits of Kaye's antebellum study, one hopes that historians of other periods will examine the importance of place to African Americans." -- Journal of Mississippi History "A finely detailed and richly documented narrative. . . . This volume can be expected to have wide-ranging influence on the future study of the lives of the enslaved and the plantation economy that held them in bondage." -- Journal of the Early Republic "A significant addition to the historiography of the Old South." -- Arkansas Historical Quarterly "Based on path-breaking research that accomplishes something unthinkable at this late date: it excavates a too-rarely used, massive set of sources that reports new words from ex-slaves speaking about their experiences before emancipation. . . . A rewarding, even exciting contribution to the scholarship of slavery and African-American history. . . . A detailed, breathing portrait of slavery in the Natchez District, one that sometimes is shocking in its living tints. . . . All who study slavery in North America need to read this important new work." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History "By reconceptualizing slaves as living within complex, shifting, historically and spatially specific 'neighborhoods, ' Joining Places suggests a promising way out of the increasingly unproductive historiographical impasse between slaves' agency and masters' power. . . . Throughout, Kaye's painstaking examination of his subjects' language leads to new insights." -- Journal of American History "Eloquently shows the significance of neighborhoods in the ante-bellum South." -- Journal of Southern History "One of the best books on American slavery to appear in recent years. . . . Scholars have written about these themes for years, but never with Kaye's mixture of empirical depth, stylistic grace, and theoretical sophistication." -- Civil War History "Virtually an anatomy of the roots of neighborhood in southern communities in the U.S. South. . . . Suitable and highly recommended." -- Multicultural Review


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  • ISBN-13: 9780807861790
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 625 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0807861790
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 376
  • Series Title: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
  • Sub Title: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South
  • Width: 154 mm


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