TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dunaway,Wilma A.
TI  - The African-American family in slavery and emancipation
SN  - 0521812763
AV  - E443 .D86 2003
U1  - 306.3620973 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Maison des sciences de l'homme/Cambridge University Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - African American families
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Appalachian Region, Southern
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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

N2  - 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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