Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

by Anthony E. Kaye

Book Overview

In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing, and storytelling,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807861790
• ISBN13: 9780807861790
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"