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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

by John W. Blassingame · 1976

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Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline.

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adult
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long · 432 pages

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