Memories of the enslaved : voices from the slave narratives /
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| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the history of the slave narratives
- Interviewing formerly enslaved people
- Controversy over use of the narratives
- Growing respect for oral histories
- Chronology of slavery in the United States
- Ch. 1: The community and culture of the enslaved
- Religious services
- Worshipping in secret
- Important holidays
- Corn huskings and frolics
- Weddings
- Funerals
- Music
- Ch. 2: The hardships of an enslaved childhood
- Familial bonds
- The slaveholder as surrogate parent
- Day-to-day care of enslaved children
- Transition from childhood to productive worker
- Childhood games (the chance to just be a child)
- Ch. 3: The family under slavery
- Challenges of marriage for the enslaved
- Loss of family members: separation of couples and families
- Mixed family: white father
- Providing support for family members
- Preserving family history
- Ch. 4: Women and enslavement
- The workday for enslaved women
- Enslaved women and their families
- Enslaved women and marriage
- Sexual imposition and enslaved women
- Ch. 5: Work and slavery
- Field workers
- Domestic workers
- Skilled workers
- Hiring out enslaved workers
- Ch. 6: Physical abuse and intimidation
- Punishing field workers
- Punishing domestic workers
- Crushing signs of rebelliousness
- Ch. 7: Runaways and the quest for freedom
- Reasons for deciding to run
- Crafting a plan of escape
- Fleeing not too far distant
- Discouraging freedom
- The impact of the Civil War
- Emancipation
- Appendix: Historian's views on slavery: an overview for the advanced reader.