Sold down the river slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia /
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10527800 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place
- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier
- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade
- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life
- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power
- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship
- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity
- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.