| Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia Contributor(s): Berry, Daina Ramey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252031466 ISBN-13: 9780252031465 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South ""Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe"" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters' interests in sharing their workforce allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves' internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals important new ways of understanding what it meant to be a female or male slave, as well as how public and private aspects of slave life influenced each other on the plantation. "A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Slavery - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 307.720 |
| LCCN: 2006100938 |
| Series: Women in American History |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.38" W x 9.16" (1.26 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters' interests in sharing their workforce allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves' internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals important new ways of understanding what it meant to be a female or male slave, as well as how public and private aspects of slave life influenced each other on the plantation. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White |