Joining Places - Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South - Paperback - 2009

Presents an interpretation of antebellum slavery that offers a portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. This work describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 376 pages, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index
Format: Paperback
Serie: John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture