Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South
المؤلفون: Pargas, Damian Alan, author.
سنة النشر: 2015
وصف مادي: xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
سلاسل: Cambridge studies on the American South
Cambridge studies on the American South.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Slave trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Forced migration -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Migration, Internal -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century., Migrant labor -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Assimilation (Sociology) -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century., History.
جغرافية الموضوع: Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century., Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
الوصف: "American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding Southwest, scattered locally, and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes"--
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: Introduction -- Part I. Migration -- Valuable Bodies -- The Gathering Storm -- Changing Places -- Part II. Assimilation -- Cogs in the Wheel -- Managing Newcomers -- Slave Crucibles -- Conclusion.
Original Identifier: ocn885226034
(PromptCat)40024511256
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-1-107-03121-0
978-1-107-65896-7
1-107-03121-4
1-107-65896-9
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.014292804.6
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9781107031210
9781107658967
1107031214
1107658969