The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868

ISBN-13: 9780815330820 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 222 str.

Dale Edwyna Smith

Opis

A new wave historian mines previously unexamined documents of the Amite county seat courthouse (Liberty, MS) in relating the lives of black Americans under and freed from slavery. Main foci are: slave law, gender issues, local churches, the troubles of 1861-65 as related in a slaveowner's diary wi

Spis treści

Series Editors' Foreword, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1. Amite County, Mississippi, Chapter 2. The Color of Law, Chapter 3. The Broken Circle: Our Family, Black and White, Chapter 4. The Kindlier Sphere: The Women of Amite County, Chapter 5. Plantations of the Lord, Chapter 6. War, Chapter 7. Emancipation, Chapter 8. I and Tone: The Lives of Eli and Tony Capell, Chapter 9. Conclusion, Appendix, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Dale Edwyna Smith