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100 1 _aDunaway, Wilma A.
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245 1 4 _aThe African-American family in slavery and emancipation /
_cWilma A. Dunaway.
260 _aNew York :
_bMaison des sciences de l'homme/Cambridge University Press,
_c2003.
300 _a xi, 368 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm.
440 0 _aStudies in modern capitalism
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-352) and index.
505 _aSlave 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
520 _aWilma 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.
650 0 _aSlavery
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aAfrican American families
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aSlaves
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
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650 0 _aSlaves
_xEmancipation
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aFreedmen
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
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650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial conditions.
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650 0 _aAfrican American families
_zAppalachian Region, Southern
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aSlaves
_zAppalachian Region, Southern
_xSocial conditions.
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651 0 _aAppalachian Region, Southern
_xRace relations.
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651 0 _aAppalachian Region, Southern
_xSocial conditions.
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856 4 1 _3Sample text
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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