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This Species of Property

Slave Life and Culture in the Old South

By: Leslie Howard Owens

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Paperback | 22 September 1977

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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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"A major work because of its unprecedented use of plantation records to augment ex-slave autobiographies and narratives...[It] establishes Leslie Howard Owens as a major historian of Afro-American slavery."--The New Republic "Provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere."--Journal of Southern History "Excellent book...[It offers] great insight into the lives of the slaves as well as providing a good demonstration of historical methodology."--Terence Roehrig, Cardinal Stritch College "A work of original scholarship presented in an accessible and 'student-friendly' style."--John Rhinehart, San Bernadino Valley College

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Drawing the Color Line	p. 7
into the Fields-- Life, Disease, and Labor in the Old South	p. 19
Blackstrap Molasses and Cornbread--Diet and Its Impact on Behavior	p. 50
The Logic of Resistance	p. 70
The Household Slave	p. 106
The Black Slave Driver	p. 121
The Shadow of the Slave Quarters	p. 136
The Rhythm of Culture	p. 164
A Family Folk	p. 182
This Property is Condemned	p. 214
Manuscript Sources	p. 227
Notes	p. 237
Index	p. 285
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