The Resource The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South, Damian Alan Pargas
The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South, Damian Alan Pargas
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- Summary
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- In The Quarters and the Fields, Damian Pargas provides a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, he compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane
- In doing so, Pargas reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life. Demanding labor arrangements in Virginia forced slave mothers to find childcare from white mistresses or elderly slaves. South Carolina slave owners' focus on task completion rather than gang labor led to enslaved field hands having more time to spend with their families and engage in work on their own behalf. In Louisiana, the long brutal days of cane cultivation left slaves little time for family contact but provided them with unique opportunities to improve their families' material conditions
- By presenting a broader view of the complex forces that shaped enslaved people's family lives, not only from outside but also from within, this book takes an inclusive approach to the slave agency debate. These families negotiated a variety of boundaries and opportunities, and, as Pargas reveals, the differences had much more to do with local needs and customs than with the institution of slavery itself. The Quarters and the Fields offers a means for understanding slave families as they truly were: dynamic social units that were formed and existed under different circumstances across time and space. --Book Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 259 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families
- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South
- The nature of agricultural labor
- Family contact during working hours
- Family-based internal economies
- Slaveholding across time and space
- Marriage strategies and family formation
- Forced separation
- Weathering different storms
- Isbn
- 9780813035147
- Label
- The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South
- Title
- The quarters and the fields
- Title remainder
- slave families in the non-cotton South
- Statement of responsibility
- Damian Alan Pargas
- Subject
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- Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Families
- Geography -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- History
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History
- Slaven (arbeid)
- Slavernij
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States
- Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- African American families -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- In The Quarters and the Fields, Damian Pargas provides a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, he compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane
- In doing so, Pargas reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life. Demanding labor arrangements in Virginia forced slave mothers to find childcare from white mistresses or elderly slaves. South Carolina slave owners' focus on task completion rather than gang labor led to enslaved field hands having more time to spend with their families and engage in work on their own behalf. In Louisiana, the long brutal days of cane cultivation left slaves little time for family contact but provided them with unique opportunities to improve their families' material conditions
- By presenting a broader view of the complex forces that shaped enslaved people's family lives, not only from outside but also from within, this book takes an inclusive approach to the slave agency debate. These families negotiated a variety of boundaries and opportunities, and, as Pargas reveals, the differences had much more to do with local needs and customs than with the institution of slavery itself. The Quarters and the Fields offers a means for understanding slave families as they truly were: dynamic social units that were formed and existed under different circumstances across time and space. --Book Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pargas, Damian Alan
- Dewey number
- 975/.041
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E443
- LC item number
- .P37 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- New perspectives on the history of the South
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slaves
- Slaves
- Plantation life
- Slavery
- African American families
- Agriculture
- Geography
- Southern States
- Slaven (arbeid)
- Slavernij
- Families
- Label
- The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South, Damian Alan Pargas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families -- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South -- The nature of agricultural labor -- Family contact during working hours -- Family-based internal economies -- Slaveholding across time and space -- Marriage strategies and family formation -- Forced separation -- Weathering different storms
- Control code
- 609872080
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9780813035147
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010017081
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609872080
- Label
- The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South, Damian Alan Pargas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : agency, diversity, and slave families -- Three slave societies of the non-cotton South -- The nature of agricultural labor -- Family contact during working hours -- Family-based internal economies -- Slaveholding across time and space -- Marriage strategies and family formation -- Forced separation -- Weathering different storms
- Control code
- 609872080
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9780813035147
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010017081
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609872080
Subject
- Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- Families
- Geography -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
- History
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History
- Slaven (arbeid)
- Slavernij
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States
- Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- African American families -- Southern States -- Social conditions
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