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Author Hudson, Larry E., 1952-

Title To have and to hold : slave work and family life in antebellum South Carolina / Larry E. Hudson, Jr
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 241 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. For Better for Worse: The Slaves' World of Work -- 2. For Richer for Poorer: The Family as an Economic Unit -- 3. In Sickness and in Health: Disease, Death, and Family Disruption -- 4. To Love and to Cherish: The Slave Family -- Conclusion: To Have and to Hold
Summary Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, Larry E. Hudson Jr. covers a wide range of economic and social topics related to the opportunities given to slaves to produce and trade their own food and other goods - contingent on first completing the master's assigned work for the day. In particular, Hudson shows how these opportunities were exploited by the slaves to both increase their control over their family life and to gain status among their fellow slaves
Filled with details of slaves' social values, family formation, work patterns, "internal economies," and domestic production, To Have and to Hold is based on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, emphasizing wherever possible the recollections of former slaves. Although their private world was never immune to intervention from the white world, Hudson demonstrates a relationship between the agricultural productivity of slaves, in family situations that range from simple to complex formations, and the accumulation of personal property and social status within slave communities. By capitalizing on these opportunities for autonomy, says Hudson, slaves not only tempered some of the daily brutalities of their lives but also prepared themselves for freedom, for it was the family group that most powerfully influenced the personalities of the slaves and it was in the slave quarters that the foundations of an African American culture were established
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Arbeit, ... gnd
Subject Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social conditions
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- South Carolina
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Plantation life
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Sklave
Familie
Arbeit
Slaven (arbeid)
Gezin.
Slavernij.
Esclaves -- Conditions sociales -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Sud (États-Unis)
SUBJECT South Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004452
Subject South Carolina
South Carolina
Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) -- Histoire.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96013711
ISBN 9780820337272
0820337277