Slave against slave [electronic resource] :plantation violence in the old South / Jeff Forret.
By: Forret, Jeff.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807161128.Subject(s): Community life -- Southern States -- History | Plantation life -- Southern States -- History | Agent (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History | Violence -- Southern States -- History | Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History | Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions | Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Southern States -- Social conditions -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 306.3/620975 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Violence, community, and agency in the slave South -- Origins, prevalence, and patterns -- Slaves, masters, church, and the civil law of slavery -- Intraracial slave homicide and the criminal law of slavery -- Violence at work and play -- Violence and the slave economy -- Violence in the creation, maintenance, and destruction of slave unions -- Honor, violence, and enslaved masculinity -- Honor, violence, and enslaved femininity -- Epilogue: "Black-on-black violence" in historical perspective -- Appendix: Intraracial slave homicides in Virginia, 1777-1864.
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