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Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Rebecca J. Fraser
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-12 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Through an examination of various couples who were forced to live in slavery, Rebecca J. Fraser argues that slaves found ways to conduct successful courting rel
Suspect Relations
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Kirsten Fischer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from
Voices of the Enslaved
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Sophie White
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-25 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men — like the testimony of free colonists — was meticulously recorded
Slave Against Slave
Language: en
Pages: 545
Authors: Jeff Forret
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-16 - Publisher: LSU Press

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In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as s
Moments of Despair
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: David Silkenat
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experie