Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

(Part of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History Series)

by Daina Ramey Berry

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Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0252031466

ISBN13:9780252031465

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Discrimination & Racism History Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Women in History

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Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

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