Sweet Chariot - Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-century Louisiana - Paperback - 1996

This volume is a statistical study over time of 155 slave communities in 26 Louisiana parishes and a descriptive analysis of three plantations: Oakland, Petite Anse, and Tiger Island. The ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community are presented.
Year of publication: 1996
Pagination: 383 pages, 25 illustrations, 15 tables, 20 figures, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index
Format: Paperback
Serie: Fred W.Morrison Series in Southern Studies