Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps,9780820322100

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps

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ISBN13: 9780820322100
ISBN10: 0820322105
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Georgia Pr
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Summary

Them Dark Daysis a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery's horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment.Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers' letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records,Them Dark Daysoffers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.

Author Biography

William Dusinberre is Reader Emeritus in American History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure and Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865.

Table of Contents

I GOWRIE: A MANIGAULT ESTATE
Gentleman Capitalists
3(25)
Manigaults and Heywards
28(20)
The Charnel House
48(36)
Unhappy Families
84(38)
Dissidence
122(56)
Privilege
178(35)
II BUTLER ISLAND
Frances Kemble
213(22)
Mothers and Children
235(13)
Degradation
248(17)
Morale
265(20)
III ROBERT ALLSTON'S PLANTATIONS
The Capitalist as Rice Planter
285(17)
Coercion
302(17)
Privileged Slaves
319(31)
White Supremacy and Paternalist Theory
350(37)
IV THE WIDER SCENE
The Rice Kingdom
387(30)
Retrospect
417(12)
Slavery
429(8)
Appendixes 437(26)
Notes 463(78)
Index 541

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