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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
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by John W. Blassingame
Sales Rank: 19706
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List Price: $39.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USAEdition: 2nd Edition November 1, 1979
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195025636
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195025637
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
Reader Reviews
Blassingame wrote this book in the face of the insurmountable problem that a community can only be fully understood through tapping the thoughts and feelings of its members. Since slaves thoughts and feelings were so seldom recorded, the book tends to be based mostly on observations by whites. Nevertheless, even in observations of how slaves behaved, there is much that is not well understood. As a result, Blassingame devotes a lengthy section of the book trying to determine the degree of basis in fact of the stereotypical image of slave as demure and subservient. Ultimately Blassingame uses the example of Nazi-operated concentrated camps in World War II to reason through analogy to try to arrive at some kind of definitive conclusion. This portion is not the bulk of the text, but there are several other points of discussion in the book that seem equally inconclusive in this same way. Nevertheless, there are also some very enlightening discussions such as the structure of marriage and the family, religion, slave rebellions, and miscegenation. I found Blassingame's writing style very easy to read, and the material compelling. Despite my belly-aching on the inconclusiveness of many of the points in the Slave Community, I felt that this was a shortcoming imposed by the subject of the book, and not Blassingame's fault per se, and I still think it deserves four stars.
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