Yuletide in Dixie : slavery, Christmas, and Southern memory /

Yuletide in Dixie scrutinizes two centuries of stereotypes about U.S. slaves' Christmases. Much has been written about Christmas in the antebellum South, but no book has tackled its place in master-slave relations, addressed black perspectives on holiday privileges, showed how these traditions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	May, Robert E. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Slaves > Southern States > Social conditions. Slavery > Southern States > History. Christmas > Southern States > History. Collective memory > Southern States. Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865. Southern States > Social life and customs > To 1775.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Time and punishment
Purchased at little cost
Human trafficking on Jesus's birthday
Gaming the system
Winters of their discontent
Ransacking the garret
Sanitizing the past
Epilogue: beyond candlelight tours