Slavery and Class in the American South A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony 1840 1865 1st edition by William Andrews 0190908408 9780190908409

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ISBN-10 :  0190908408

ISBN-13 :  9780190908409

Author :  William L. Andrews  

“The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their respective masters.” Henry Bibb, fugitive slave, editor, and antislavery activist, stated this in his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849). In William L. Andrews’s magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclosed class-based reasons for violence that broke out between “impudent,” “gentleman,” and “lady” slaves and their resentful “mean masters.” Andrews’s far-reaching book shows that status and class played key roles in the self- and social awareness and in the processes of liberation portrayed in the narratives of the most celebrated fugitives from U.S. slavery, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and William and Ellen Craft.

Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony 1840-1865 1st Table of contents:

1. Emerging Class Awareness
2. Work, Status, and Social Mobility
3. Class and Conflict: White and Black
4. The Fugitive as Class Exemplar

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