TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blassingame,John W.
TI  - The slave community: plantation life in the antebellum South 
SN  - 0195025628 :
AV  - E443 .B55 1979
U1  - 975/.004/96073 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Sklaverei
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
KW  - Südstaaten
N1  - 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
N2  - Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0602/78026890-d.html
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/slavecommunitypl00blas
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL21278835M
ER  -