Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Anthony E . Kaye (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $42.86

  Presents an interpretation of antebellum slavery that offers a portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. This work describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents.