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This species of property : slave life and culture in the Old South

Author: Leslie Howard Owens
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1977, ©1976.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Leslie Howard Owens
ISBN: 0195022459 9780195022452
OCLC Number: 3072671
Description: 291 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Leslie Howard Owens.
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Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.

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