Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

Name: Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia
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ISBN: 9780252077586

ISBN-10: 025207758X

ISBN-13: 9780252077586

Edition: 2010

Authors: Daina Ramey Berry

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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 lowcountry 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 workforces 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…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 6/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



ï¿½I Had to Work Hard, Plow, and Go and Split Wood Jus' Like a Manï¿½: Skill, Gender, and Productivity in Agricultural Settings



ï¿½Dey S'lected Me Out to Be a Housegirlï¿½: The Privileges and Pain of Nonagricultural Labor



ï¿½There Sho' Was a Sight of Usï¿½: Enslaved Family and Community Rituals



ï¿½O, I Never Has Forgot Dat Last Dinner wit My Folksï¿½: Enslaved Family and Community Realities



ï¿½For the Current Yearï¿½: The Informal Economy and Slave Hiring


Epilogue: The Aftermath of Slavery