“…Manuels / Institut d'Etudes Slaves…”

Materias: “…United States. Fugitive slave law (1793)…”
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“…This experience was defined both by their status as slaves and by gender inequality. On the one hand, their slave status gradually robbed them of their domain—the household economy—and created a kind of perverse equality in which slave women—like slave men—became “units of agricultural labor.” …”

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“…This collection offers a follow up to the first collection of essays Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les Avatars des récits d’esclaves (2005), whose purpose was to bring together African-merican and Caribbean neo-slave novels. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE SLAVE SOUTH; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's preface; INTRODUCTION; Part I The Old South as a paternalist society; 1 THE FRUITS OF MERCHANT CAPITALThe slave South as a paternalist society; 2 WITHIN THE PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD Women in a paternalist system; Part II Masters and slaves; 3 AMERICAN SLAVERY A flexible, highly developed form of capitalism; 4 SLAVERY AND THE CIRCLE OF CULTURE; 5 THE MASK OF OBEDIENCE Male slave psychology in the Old South; 6 THE BLACK FAMILY AS A MECHANISM OF PLANTER CONTROL; Part III Women and men; 7 LOVE AND BIOGRAPHY Three courtships; 8 WOMEN AND THE SEARCH FOR MANLY INDEPENDENCE; 9 FEMALE SLAVES Sex roles and status in the antebellum plantation South; Further reading…”