Description: Slave Against Slave : Plantation Violence in the Old South, Paperback by Forret, Jeff, ISBN 0807174319, ISBN-13 9780807174319, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracialblack violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. "Slave against Slave" explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in whichslaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, Forret's work also adds depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence andpunish those who engaged in it. Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives, slaveholders' journals, travelers' accounts, and church and court records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of slave-against-slave violence prior to the Civil War. A diverse range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over status differences, to disagreements originating at work and in private, to discord relating to the slave economy and the web of debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital disputes, and adulterous affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople's constructions of masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among slaves that would have been familiar tosouthern white men and women, had they cared to acknowledge it. Though many generations of scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and against whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have remained largely 's analysis of intraracial slave conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave communities, opening a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery"--
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Book Title: Slave Against Slave : Plantation Violence in the Old South
Number of Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Name: Slave Against Slave : Plantation Violence in the Old South
Language: English
Publisher: LSU
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Slavery, Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Violence in Society, United States / General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jeff Forret
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
