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Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that a region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small slaveholdings. By drawing on a massive statistical data base derived from antebellum census manuscripts and county tax records of 215 counties in nine states, on a vast array of slaveholder manuscripts, and on regional slave narratives, she pinpoints several indicators that distinguished Mountain South enslavement from the Lower South. These include a higher incidence of ethnic mixing between African and Native American slaves, heavier reliance on the field labor of women and children, and more frequent assignment of slaves to non-agricultural occupations. Dunaway also calls into question the notion that large numbers were necessary before slaves could engage in community building and resistance.

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• Full title: Slavery in the American Mountain South
• Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780521812757
• ISBN: 0521812755
• ID: 02044618
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 602 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. May 2003

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