The African-American family in slavery and emancipation / Wilma A. Dunaway.
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TextSeries: Studies in modern capitalismPublication details: New York : Maison des sciences de l'homme/Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: xi, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0521812763
- 0521012163 (pbk.)
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- African American families -- History
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
- Freedmen -- United States -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African American families -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History
- Slaves -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions
- 21 306.3620973 DUN
- E443 .D86 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-352) and index.
Slave trading and forced labor migrations
Family diasporas and parenthood lost
Malnutrition, ecological risks, and slave mortality
Reproductive exploitation and child mortality
Slave household subsistence and women's work
The impacts of Civil War on slave families
The risks of emancipation for black families
Reconstruction threats to black family survival
Theoretical reprise
Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the slave family have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and exaggeration of slave agency. Using population trends and slave narratives, she identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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