Sold down the river : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia

Sold down the river : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / Anthony Gene Carey.

In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carey, Anthony Gene
Corporate Authors: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, Troup County Historical Society
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Slavery > Chattahoochee River Valley.
Slavery > Chattahoochee River Valley > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Slavery
Chattahoochee River Valley > History.
United States > Chattahoochee River Valley
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place
  • Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier
  • Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade
  • The work of slavery, the lineaments of life
  • "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power
  • Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship
  • Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity
  • Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.

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