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Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe:

Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia
  • ISBN-13: 9780252031465
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Daina Berry
  • Price: AUD $239.00
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2007
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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''Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe'' compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth-century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters' interests in sharing their workforce allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves' internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals important new ways of understanding what it meant to be a female or male slave, as well as how public and private aspects of slave life influenced each other on the plantation.
''Reconstructing the practices of slavery from plantation records, memoirs, and newspapers and the encounter with those practices through folk songs and ex-slave testimonies, Berry succeeds in capturing commonalities and differences in slavery in white-majority communities and African American-majority communities. . . .[An] important contribution to historiography. Recommended.''--''Choice ''
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