This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South

by Leslie Howard Owens

Overview

Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198020226
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/22/1977
Series:	Galaxy Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	957,311
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)
File size:	432 KB

Editorial Reviews

"A major work because of its unprecedented use of plantation records to augment ex-slave autobiographies and narratives...[It] establishes Leslie Howard Owens as a major historian of Afro-American slavery."—The New Republic

"Provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere."—Journal of Southern History

"Excellent book...[It offers] great insight into the lives of the slaves as well as providing a good demonstration of historical methodology."—Terence Roehrig, Cardinal Stritch College

"A work of original scholarship presented in an accessible and 'student-friendly' style."—John Rhinehart, San Bernadino Valley College

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