Abstract
The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed. The themes of this work center on the multifaceted reality of loss, recovery, resilience and resistance embedded in the desire of African/African descended people to experience family life despite their enslavement. These themes look back to the critical loss that Africans, both those taken and those who remained, endured, as the enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley honors in the line—“What sorrows labour in my parents’ breast?,” and look forward to the generations of slaves born through the Civil War era who struggled to realize their humanity in the recreation of family ties that tied them, through blood and emotion, to a reality beyond their legal bondage to masters and mistresses. Stevenson pays particular attention to the ways in which gender, generation, location, slave labor, the economic status of slaveholders and slave societies’ laws affected the black family in slavery.
Schlagworte
american slavery antebellum south Atlantic world slavery Black Family slave resistance gender and family colonial america black marriage black slave family black women- 37–182 BEGINNINGS 37–182
- 323–408 Notes 323–408
- 409–428 Index 409–428
- 429–429 About the Author 429–429
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- „... coffle headed south.In New Orleans, Francis Whitfield, a cotton planter from Claiborne Parish on the Red ...” „... bondspersons in the Lower South and southwest. By 1860, 49 percent of White household heads in Mis-sissippi ...” „... Lower South—the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee—held Black bondspeople. Undoubtedly, many ...”
- „... 1972 The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South,95 Eugene Genovese’s Roll, Jordan ...” „... enslaved family in the antebellum South. Even though previous scholars, such as John B. Cade in his 1935 ...” „... sex ratio among southern antebellum captives had made heterosexual marriage partners available. The ...”
- „... : Concubinage and Enslaved Black Women and Girls in the Antebellum South,” Journal of African American History ...” „... Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (New York: Knopf, 1956), 198.37. Ibid ...” „... : Plantation Life in the Antebel-lum South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972).96. Eugene Genovese, Roll ...”
- „... sold from Virginia to South Carolina and all her kin.Stevenson_9781442252165.indb 5 07-03-2023 ...” „... Resistance and Family from the Colonial Era Forward 129THE ANTEBELLUM FAMILIAL EXPERIENCE 1834 Antebellum ...” „... Courtship and Marital Rituals 1855 Antebellum Family Life 2196 Death and Resurrection 273Conclusion: Bob ...”
- „... property of David and Almadene Block in Hempstead County, Arkansas.4 The antebellum county, in the ...” „... ” to Arkansas, but who had been also sold and brought from the Upper and Lower South (like his father ...” „... a southern society bent on stripping away his, and his family’s, rights as American citizens ...”
- „... , next door to the White-Horse, or at a Store adjoining the said Avery’s Distill House, at the South-End ...” „... near the South Market: Also if any Persons have any Negro Men, strong and hearty, tho not of the best ...” „... Swedes, along with African entities from Senegam-bia south through the western central areas of the ...”
- „... : Atlantic slave trade from, 44; Portuguese slave traders in, 82; slave families of, 94, 95, 96antebellum ...” „... castles, 46, 65, 67, 68Catholicism, 82, 90, 97, 98–99; in antebellum period, 255, 256; communion in, 259 ...” „... , Julia, 242Christianity, 78, 84; in antebellum period, 254–63; of Bibb, H., 188, 190–91; marriage and ...”