Setting Slavery's Limits: Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801?Çô1860 (New Studies in Southern History)

This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-to-day lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement--

• | Author: Christopher H. Bouton
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: November 20, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 206 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1498579450
• | ISBN-13: 9781498579452