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Sold down the river [electronic resource] : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / Anthony Gene Carey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.Description: x, 263 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/6209758 22
LOC classification:
  • E445.A3 C37 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.

"Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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