By Damian Alan Pargas
The Quarters and the Fields deals a special method of the exam of slavery. instead of targeting slave paintings and relatives existence on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the perform of slavery one of the different significant agricultural cultures within the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, combined grain, rice, and sugar cane. He finds how the calls for of alternative different types of masters and vegetation encouraged paintings styles and behavior, which in flip formed slaves' kin life.
By featuring a broader view of the advanced forces that formed enslaved people's kin lives, not just from outdoors but additionally from inside of, this booklet takes an inclusive method of the slave business enterprise debate. A comparative learn that examines the significance of time and position for slave households, The Quarters and the Fields presents a way for knowing them as they honestly have been: dynamic social devices that have been shaped and existed below assorted conditions throughout time and space.
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