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Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)
William Dusinberre
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Description for Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)
Hardcover. Conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews - conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers - are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African Americans; thus, the interviewees almost certainly spoke more frankly than they would otherwise have done. Dusinberre uses the interviews to assess the strategies by which slaves sought to survive, despite the severe constrictions bondage imposed upon their lives. Religion and escape were common means of coping with the indignity of family disruption, contempt, and ... Read more
Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews - conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers - are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African Americans; thus, the interviewees almost certainly spoke more frankly than they would otherwise have done. Dusinberre uses the interviews to assess the strategies by which slaves sought to survive, despite the severe constrictions bondage imposed upon their lives. Religion and escape were common means of coping with the indignity of family disruption, contempt, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928227
SKU
V9780813928227
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About William Dusinberre
William Dusinberre, Reader in History Emeritus at the University of Warwick in England, is the author of Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk, Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure (Virginia), and the award-winning Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps.
Reviews for Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)
With Strategies for Survival William Dusinberre solidifies his reputation as one of our finest historians of southern slavery. His unusually sensitive reading of interviews with Virginia's ex-slaves returns us to basic questions, but offers startling, fresh answers. Like his classic study of slavery on the rice plantations, Strategies for Survival will quickly become a must-read for all students of antebellum ... Read more