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title	:	Working Toward Freedom : Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South
author	:	Hudson, Larry E.
publisher	:	University of Rochester
isbn10 | asin	:	1878822381
print isbn13	:	9781878822383
ebook isbn13	:	9780585270203
language	:	English
subject	Slaves--Southern States--Economic conditions, Home economics--Southern States--History, Plantation life--Southern States--History, Slavery--Economic aspects--Southern States, Southern States--Economic conditions.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	E443.W675 1994eb
ddc	:	306.3/62/0975
subject	:	Slaves--Southern States--Economic conditions, Home economics--Southern States--History, Plantation life--Southern States--History, Slavery--Economic aspects--Southern States, Southern States--Economic conditions.

Page i Working Toward Freedom

Page ii To the Memory of Christopher Lasch

Page iii Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South Edited by Larry E. Hudson Jr.

Page iv Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Copyright University of Rochester Press 1994 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1994 University of Rochester Press 34-36 Administration Building, University of Rochester Rochester, New York, 14627, USA and at PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Working toward freedom : slave society and domestic economy in the American South / edited by Larry E. Hudson Jr. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1878822373 (alk. paper) : ISBN 1878822381 (pbk.): 1. SlavesSouthern StatesEconomic conditions. 2. Home economics Southern StatesHistory. 3. Plantation lifeSouthern StatesHistory. 4. SlaveryEconomic aspectsSouthern States. 5. Southern States Economic conditions. I. Hudson, Larry E., 1952 . E443.W675 1994 306.3'62'0975dc20 9431998 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in the United States of America Designed and Typeset by Cornerstone Composition Services

Page v CONTENTS Introduction Larry E. Hudson Jr. vii Part I "A Place in Time" Regained: A Fuller History of Colonial Chesapeake Slavery Through Group Biography Lorena S. Walsh 1 "A Reckoning of Accounts": Patriarchy, Market Relations, and Control on Henry Laurens's Lowcountry Plantations, 1762-1785 Robert Olwell 33 "My Constant Companion": Slaves and Their Dogs in the Antebellum South John Campbell 53 "All That Cash": Work and Status in the Slave Quarters Larry E. Hudson Jr. 77 Material Culture and Community Structure: The Slave and Tenant Community at Levi Jordan's Plantation, 1848-1892 Kenneth L. Brown 95 Part II Sale and Separation: Four Crises for Enslaved Women on the Ball Plantations, 1764-1854 Cheryll Ann Cody 119 "Rais your children up rite": Parental Guidance and Child Rearing Practices among Slaves in the Nineteenth-Century South Wilma King 143

Page vi "It's a Family Affair:" Buying Freedom in the District of Columbia, 1850-1860 Mary Beth Corrigan 163 Symbol, Memory, and Service: Resistance and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century African America Sharon Ann Holt 192 "She Make Funny Flat Cake She Call Saraka": Gullah Women and Food Practices Under Slavery Josephine A. Beoku-Betts 211 Concluding Reflections Stanley L. Engerman 233 Notes on Contributors 243 Index 245

Page vii INTRODUCTION The work and productive activities performed by slaves for themselves rather than for their masters provided a foundation on which they built their domestic life and community. Work patterns shaped the social structure of slave society and provided a material basis for the slaves' distinctive culture. The papers presented at the Work and Culture conference held at the University of Rochester in the Spring 1993 investigated the intimate areas of slave lifetheir family organization, value systems, and cultural practices.1 The Conference achieved much more than the sum of these provocative papers because the presenters, commentators, and the diverse audience,2 combined to address several difficult and abiding questions about slavery, slaves, slave life, and the continued effects on African-American life. As always, there was insufficient time to address all questions that grew out of our collaborative efforts, and few of them were answered in a way that satisfied everyone present. That participants raised many new, as well as old, questions about the lives of slaves testifies both to the timeliness of the conference and to the still prickly nature of the subject of slavery: there remains some uneasiness with the "stories" of slavery that becomes more acute when the subject is about the slaves themselves.

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