Download or read book Slavery in the American Mountain South written by Wilma A. Dunaway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that a region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small slaveholdings. By drawing on a massive statistical data base derived from antebellum census manuscripts and county tax records of 215 counties in nine states, on a vast array slaveholder manuscripts, and on regional slave narratives, she pinpoints several indicators that distinguished Mountain South enslavement from the Lower South.