Old Age and American Slavery

by David Stefan Doddington

Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were affected by concerns with age. In examining how individuals, families, and communities felt about the aging process and dealt with elders, David Stefan Doddington...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009123084
• ISBN13: 9781009123082
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"