The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521812764)

Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the U.S. slave family are flawed by the neglect of small plantations and export zones and the exaggeration of slave agency. Using data on population trends and slave narratives, Dunaway identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families. These effective strategies include forced labor migrations, structural interference in marriages and childcare, sexual exploitation of women, shortfalls in provision of basic survival needs, and ecological risks. This book is unique in its examination of new threats to family persistence that emerged during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
ISBN-10: 0521812763
ISBN-13: 9780521812764
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2003
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d