Them Dark Days Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
- List Price: $38.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Publish date: 04/01/2000
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Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery's horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment.
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Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily lift and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers' letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.
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