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Old Age and American Slavery: Cambridge Studies on the American South

Autor David Stefan Doddington
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 oct 2023
Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were affected by concerns with age. In examining how individuals, families, and communities felt about the aging process and dealt with elders, David Stefan Doddington emphasizes the complex social relations that developed in a slave society. In connecting old age to the arguments of Black activists, abolitionists, enslavers, and their propagandists, the book reveals how representations of old age, and experiences of aging, spoke to wider struggles relating to mastery, paternalism, resistance, and survival in slavery. The book asks us to rethink long-standing narratives relating to networks of solidarity in the American South and it illuminates the violent and exploitative nature of American slavery.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009123082
ISBN-10: 1009123084
Pagini: 424
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies on the American South

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Old Age and American Slavery; Part I. The Enslaved: 1. 'As to those more advanced in life': Old Age in Slavery; 2. 'Old and broken now; no tongue can tell how much I suffer': Sale, Abandonment, and Neglect; 3. 'Young people think that old people are fools but old people know that young people are fools': Intergenerational Conflict among the Enslaved; 4. 'Don't kill such an old creature as I': Old Age and Community Tension; 5. 'You won't notice me now but you'll wish you had': Conjure, Community, and Intergenerational Conflict; 6. 'The summer of my life was passing away': Resistance, Old Age, and Surviving Slavery; Part II. Enslavers: 7. 'Old God damn son-of-a-bitch, she gone on down to hell': Elderly Enslavers and Enslaved Resistance; 8. 'They are getting too old and weak': Aged Mastery and White Conflict; 9. 'Something must be done with the old man': Dominion after Death; 10. 'Let our women and old men… be disabused of the false and unfounded notion that slavery is sinful': Emancipation Contested; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'This book offers compelling evidence that the rhetoric and realities of old age decline shaped enslaved people's self-understandings, relations with each other, and resistance to slavery as well as conflicts among enslavers. David Doddington demonstrates that no understanding of slavery can be complete without attention to old age.' Corinne Field, author of Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America
'Most previous research on slavery and age has focused on enslaved children. By moving the elderly to the forefront, Doddington further advances age as a worthwhile category of analysis, with fresh insights into the differences that the passing years made in the lives of the enslaved.' Jeff Forret, author of Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
'In this masterful and timely study, David Doddington explores the perceptions and effects of physical aging on the institution of slavery in the antebellum South. Old Age and American Slavery alters our understandings of the life cycles of the enslaved as well as the exploitative power relationships that undergirded bondage.' Damian Alan Pargas, author of Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860

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Descriere

Explores how age shaped the institution of slavery and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike.