A01=Jeff Forret
antebellum South
Author_Jeff Forret
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slave community
slave conflict
slave honor
slave laws
slave morality
slave narratives
slave punishment
slave quarters
slaveholders
Product details
- ISBN 9780807174319
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Using a vast array of primary sources, Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, the book also deepens understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how they sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. With this groundbreaking work, Forret has opened a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.
Jeff Forret is professor of history and a Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. He is also the author of Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside and Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts.
