Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Alleviations 1. Good Mistresses and Masters 15 2. Mixed-Race Ancestry and Long-Term Relationships 28 3. Cities and Industry 50 Part II. Offenses 4. Family Disruption 73 5. Physical Abuse 85 6. Regimentation 95 7. Contempt 104 8. Deprivation 110 Part III. Responses 9. Religion 121 10. Dissidence 141 11. Families 168 12. The Black Community 180 13. Self-Development 187 Part IV. Retrospect 14. Oppression and Self-Determination 207 Appendix 211 Notes 213 Index 243 ...