1st Edition
The Slaves of Liberty Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868
By Dale Edwyna Smith
Copyright 1999
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
This study focuses on the lives of the black slave majority in the deep South in the mid-19th century. The topics of civil law, demographics, the role of the church, family life, plantation economics, and gender issues are all revealed through careful study of primary sources previously unexamined by historians. The author has meticulously researched newspapers, court transcripts, county archives,... Read more
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
Biography
Dale Edwyna Smith
