Term Two: Week 1: The work of the slave
Gobbets
- Northup ch 12
- Ball Ch 4
- The Emancipator 1838
Questions
What was the normal work routine of the slave? How did it differ from region to region? How did slaves view their normal work load?
Core Reading
E-resources
- Durrill, Wayne K, 'Routine of seasons: labor regimes & social ritual in an antebellum plantation community' S&A 16 (1995), 161-187
- House, Albert, 'Labor-management problems in Georgia rice plantation, 1844-1860' AgHist 28 (1954) 149-155
- Clifton, James, 'The Rice industry in colonial America' Ag Hist (1981)
Further Reading
- Miller E, & Genovese, E, Plantation town and county, (pt 2)
- Syndor, C. S. Slavery in Mississippi (ch 1)
- Moody, V A, Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations (ch 4)
- Morgan, Philip, Slave Counterpoint (pt 1)
- Hudson, Larry, To have and to hold: slave work and family life in antebellum South Carolina
- Smith. Mark, Time, slavery and freedom in the American South
- Carney, Judith, Black Rice: The origins of rice cultivation in the Americas
- Rivers, Larry, Slavery in Florida: territorial days to emancipation