Blassingame, John W., 1940- The slave community : : plantation life in the antebellum South / [electronic resource] / John W. Blassingame.. — Rev. and enl. ed.. — New York : : Oxford University Press,, 1979.. — xviii, 414 p. : : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 383-402.
1. Enslavement, acculturation, and African survivals -- 2. The Americanization of the slave and the Africanization of the South -- 3. Culture -- 4. The slave family -- 5. Rebels and runaways -- 6. Plantation stereotypes and institutional roles -- 7. Plantation realities -- 8. Slave personality types -- Appendix I. Comparative examination of total institutions -- Appendix II. African words, numerals, and sentences used by former slaves in Georgia and South Carolina in the 1890s -- Appendix III. Statistics on slaves and slavery : observations and tables.
Анотація: Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline.