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- Slavery in Alabama
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
- Series: Library Alabama Classics
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The only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama
Since its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state. After a brief discussion of slavery under imperial rulers of the colonial and territorial periods, Sellers focuses on the transplantation of the slavery system from the Atlantic seaboard states to Alabama.
Sellers used the primary sources available to him, including government documents, county and city records, personal papers, church records, and newspapers. His discussions of the church and the slave, and his treatment of the proslavery defense, deepen the comprehensiveness of his study. His two sections of photographs are special touches showing former slaves and churches with slave galleries.
Since its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state. After a brief discussion of slavery under imperial rulers of the colonial and territorial periods, Sellers focuses on the transplantation of the slavery system from the Atlantic seaboard states to Alabama.
Sellers used the primary sources available to him, including government documents, county and city records, personal papers, church records, and newspapers. His discussions of the church and the slave, and his treatment of the proslavery defense, deepen the comprehensiveness of his study. His two sections of photographs are special touches showing former slaves and churches with slave galleries.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xxiv
- 2. Plantation and Planters
- pp. 19-43
- 4. The Slave and the Plantation
- pp. 81-140
- 5. Traffic in Slaves
- pp. 141-194
- 6. Hired Slave and Town Slave
- pp. 195-214
- 7. The Legal Status of the Slave
- pp. 215-241
- 8. Crimes and Punishments of Slaves
- pp. 242-265
- 9. Runaways
- pp. 266-293
- 10. The Church and the Slave
- pp. 294-331
- 11. The Defense of Slavery
- pp. 332-360
- 12. The Free Negro in Alabama Before 1865
- pp. 361-398
- Bibliography
- pp. 399-409
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817389147
Related ISBN(s)
9780817305949
MARC Record
OCLC
45730969
Pages
462
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1994