Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The by Anthony E. Kaye

By Anthony E. Kaye

During this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Kaye bargains a bright portrait of slaves remodeling adjacent plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes women and men starting paths from their vendors' plantations to adjoining farms to head dating and take spouses, to paintings, to run away, and to another way deal with proprietors and their brokers. Demonstrating that neighborhoods prevailed around the South, Kaye reformulates principles approximately slave marriage, resistance, self sustaining construction, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave neighborhood that experience outlined a long time of scholarship. this is often the 1st publication approximately slavery to take advantage of the pension records of former squaddies within the Union military, an enormous resource of wealthy testimony by means of ex-slaves.

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For analytical purposes, slave neighborhoods are hard to conceive without slaveholders and their neighborhoods. π≥ During the early nineteenth century, when settlers ventured into the northern reaches of the Natchez District, slaveholders constructed neighborhoods around a nucleus of one or several families who had migrated together from the seaboard states. Exchanges of labor, tools, and produce sustained households in rude circumstances and bound them together as a neighborhood. During the antebellum decades, planters identified each neighborhood with a particular family, which may have accounted for as few as one in five households in the vicinity but for a lion’s share of the land and slaves.

Planters had not intended to do so, if the slave code was any indication. Statutes enjoined bondpeople from going to other plantations to hear slave preachers and required them to confine their ministry to their owners’ property. ∞≠∫ Slaves carved out places of worship in their neighborhoods. ∞≠Ω Former slaves from Mississippi east of the Natchez District pointed to some of these natural places of worship. ’’ A song recalled by Ellen King told Christians where the savior went. ∞∞≠ Congregations appropriated the ground for worship by laying up brush and poles and cutting rough planks for seats.

The chapters in this book are organized around the power relations in which slaves made neighborhoods. Chapter 1 surveys neighborhoods across the Old South. Chapter 2 explores kinship through the variety of intimate relations men and women created. Chapter 3 traces relations of labor. Chapter 4 maps the field of struggle. Chapter 5 examines slaves’ ambit outside the neighborhood and the novel powers encountered there. Chapter 6 examines the Civil War and emancipation. The epilogue sketches the endurance of neighborhoods during Reconstruction and their place in freedpeople’s politics.

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