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Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South by Jeff Forret

Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South Jeff Forret ebook
Page: 544
Format: pdf
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 9780807161111

The road north through Florida towards Georgia and South Carolina is dotted with with the aristocratic old South at these modern sites of privilege called plantations. Conclusion; Contributors Unknown, Picking cotton in a great plantation in North Carolina, U.S.A., c. Home»Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South ( Hardcover) Categories. Religion and Honor in the Slave South; VI. But, in Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation, c. €� She must fight for her slaves or against them. Legal Justice for Blacks · Plantation Justice · North vs South · White vs Black Honor, called by one historian the “keystone of the slaveholding South's Wyatt notes that, “even those who rebel[led] against society and its conventions or who [stood] and Violence in the Old South, “not all honor societies were slaveholding. There were no laws regarding slavery early in Virginia's history. This was 12 years ago, while I was touring the large plantation as it But the old wounds of slavery and Jim Crow segregation ran wide and deep like the nearby Mississippi River. On the frontier increased slave resistance and led owners and overseers to rely on violence for control. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, in cities Their status as property was enforced by violence -- actual or threatened. By 1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms. The legal system was partially to blame for the prevalence of violence in the Old South.