In this ground-breaking study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that, at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion with profound implications for theories of black liberation and for the future of race relations in America. Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson in this century.
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... git up quick an be mighty buzy right soon, case de black snake whip reach fer 'em an reach quick. Effen deres a boy ... fixin to git a whippin. I seen some of dem run, and den they tied dem up wid chains to a post, and dey got lots worse ...
117–48 ; and David Barry Gaspar , Bondmen and Rebels : A Study of MasterSlave Relations in Antigua ( Baltimore , 1985 ) , pp . 65–68 , 93-99 . 3. Gaspar , Bondmen and Rebels , ch . 4 ; Robert V. Wells , The Population of the British ...
But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined.
This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.
For brickmaking, see Lucy Bowles Wayne, “Burning Brick: A Study of a Lowcountry Industry” (Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1992), esp. 51, 55; and Bradford L. Rauschenberg, “Brick and Tile Manufacturing in the South Carolina Low ...
This three-volume work stands apart from previous Slave Narrative collections in that it organizes the narratives thematically, bringing the rich tapestry of slave culture to life in a fresh way.
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects.
Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them.
3 ; Finis Farr , Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta : The Author of Gone with the Wind ( New York : William Morrow & Company , 1965 ) , pp . 29-30 , 81 , 104 , 109 . Marian Elder Jones , " Me and My Book , " Georgia Review 16 ( Spring 1962 ) ...