Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

by Daina Ramey Berry

Book Overview

Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252031466
• ISBN13: 9780252031465
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"