Author: Marvin L. Michael Kay
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786238X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.
Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
Author: Marvin L. Michael Kay
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786238X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786238X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.
HeinOnline's Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
Author: Marvin L. Michael Kay
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Impulse Toward Independence
Author: Alan D. Watson
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Category : Slave insurrections
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Slave insurrections
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Running for Freedom
Author: Freddie L. Parker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815310051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Focusing on North Carolina, and making use of detailed 18th and 19th-century newspaper advertisements for nearly 2,800 runaway slaves, explores the origins, growth and distribution of the black population; slave owners, runaways and the law; a physical portrait of runaway slaves; slave personalitie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815310051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Focusing on North Carolina, and making use of detailed 18th and 19th-century newspaper advertisements for nearly 2,800 runaway slaves, explores the origins, growth and distribution of the black population; slave owners, runaways and the law; a physical portrait of runaway slaves; slave personalitie
Slaveholding in North Carolina
Author: Rosser Howard Taylor
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Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina
Author: John Spencer Bassett
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Slavery in the State of North Carolina
Author: John Spencer Bassett
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
North Carolina Slave Narratives
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson.
Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Spencer Bassett
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333545598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Excerpt from Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina Conditions in the South were favorable to slavery. Large stretches Of fertile land, warm Climate, at once congenial to the negroe's and enervating to the whites, and in some places unhealthy regions where white men did not care to work; all these helped to draw slavery to America. Planted at first in the Spanish possessions of the West Indies, it spread as soon as the mainland was settled along the entire coast from Jamestown, both northward and southward. The method by which this extension was accomplished is inter esting. It may be divided for our. Purposes into two stages, an experimental stage and a stage Of diffusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333545598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Excerpt from Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina Conditions in the South were favorable to slavery. Large stretches Of fertile land, warm Climate, at once congenial to the negroe's and enervating to the whites, and in some places unhealthy regions where white men did not care to work; all these helped to draw slavery to America. Planted at first in the Spanish possessions of the West Indies, it spread as soon as the mainland was settled along the entire coast from Jamestown, both northward and southward. The method by which this extension was accomplished is inter esting. It may be divided for our. Purposes into two stages, an experimental stage and a stage Of diffusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Somerset Homecoming
Author: Dorothy Spruill Redford
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807848432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place plantation.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807848432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place plantation.