This study focuses on the lives of the black slave majority in the deep South in the mid-19th century. The topics of civil law, demographics, the role of the church, family life, plantation economics, and gender issues are all revealed through careful study of primary sources previously unexamined by historians. The author has meticulously researched newspapers, court transcripts, county archives, church minutes, plantation journals, and oral histories to produce an astonishingly detailed picture of the lives of blacks and whites during this critical period. The readable narrative was nominated for the Allan Nevins Prize for dissertations in American history in 1993.
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The Slaves of Liberty is a must for Amite Co. Researchers,
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This review is from: The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868 (Crosscurrents in African American History) (Hardcover)
"The Slaves of Liberty" is a well written, and well researched book. The author goes to great lengths to document sources and this will be of great help to others researching their family. I do take issue with the author's simplistic statements concerning the start of the Civil War. However, I still found this to be a must read.
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This book is well written, well documented. Even if you are not researching your slave ancestry, you will find references to slaveholders and other residents in the Amite County, Mississippi area. It's a small book for the price, but I found it well worth it for adding rich detail to my family history research out of Amite County.
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It was perched at the frontier's edge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black slave families, dey wus, planter women, estate files, slaveholding women, independent black churches, black slave women, church minutes, plantation mistress, freed children, white slaveholders, slave members, former slaveholders, slave regime Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lewis Weathersby, James Brown, Eli Capell, James Smylie, Estate File, Victoria Street, New York, Liberty Advocate, Freedmen's Bureau, William Winans, Pleasant Hill, Estate Papers, Mississippi River, South Carolina, Thomas Batchelor, Ebenezer Brown, Jerusalem Church, Margaret Anderson, Margaret Eliza, Old South, United States, Jordan's Stormy Banks, New Orleans, Henry Street, Irris Bonner Harris New!
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It was perched at the frontier's edge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black slave families, dey wus, planter women, estate files, slaveholding women, independent black churches, black slave women, church minutes, plantation mistress, freed children, white slaveholders, slave members, former slaveholders, slave regime Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lewis Weathersby, James Brown, Eli Capell, James Smylie, Estate File, Victoria Street, New York, Liberty Advocate, Freedmen's Bureau, William Winans, Pleasant Hill, Estate Papers, Mississippi River, South Carolina, Thomas Batchelor, Ebenezer Brown, Jerusalem Church, Margaret Anderson, Margaret Eliza, Old South, United States, Jordan's Stormy Banks, New Orleans, Henry Street, Irris Bonner Harris New!
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- The Civil War by Robert P. Jordan on 5 pages
- The American Slave--Arkansas Narratives: Part 3 & 4, Vol. 9 by Rawick on 4 pages
- American Slavery by Peter Kolchin in Front Matter, page 27, and Back Matter
- The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders by James Oakes on page 54, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina by Norrece T. Jones Jr. in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Clarence Taylor in Front Matter
- Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Clarence Taylor in Front Matter
- Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Douglas R. Egerton in Front Matter
- Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Clarence Lusane in Front Matter
- American Slavery: 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin in Back Matter
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