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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony W Neal |
ISBN: | 9780761849650 0761849653 9780761849667 0761849661 |
OCLC Number: | 506327366 |
Description: | xi, 153 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Scholarship on the brutality of American slavery -- A monopoly of violence in the slaveholder's hands -- The slaves' undying faith in God -- The torture of black women and children -- Public whippings : a terrible part of living -- White man's law : black man's grief -- The omnipresent slave patrols -- A reluctance to call it rape -- Master-on-slave rape revealed -- The threat of injury or death -- Slave resistance -- Rape and slave-breeding -- Begetting children for profit -- The humane home-breaker in slavery historiography -- The importance of the slave family -- The break-up of marital unions through slave sales -- The promiscuous bondswoman : myth or reality? -- The break-up of slave families -- One hundred more years of racism and cruelty -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | Anthony W. Neal. |
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Well-written and thoroughly researched...should become a standard text for African-American Studies courses that delve into the gross dehumanizing effects of American slavery. -- Robert Johnson Jr., Professor and former Chairperson of the Africana Studies Department, University of Massachusetts-Boston Read more...
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- Slaves -- Abuse of -- United States.
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- Slavery -- United States -- History.
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- Slaves -- Social conditions.
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