Sold down the river slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carey, Anthony Gene
Corporate Authors: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, Troup County Historical Society, ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
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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.