| #2919052 in Books | University of Georgia Press | 1995-02-01 | 1995-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.06 x6.00l,1.37 | File type: PDF | 264 pages | ||||Draws upon and makes the most of the available evidence, notably slave narratives, plantation records, municipal archives, and newspapers. And it presents its case in a clearly written, exceedingly well-organized combination of argument, evidence, and informe
In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system of informal slave economies had reached the point that it would henceforth dom...
You easily download any file type for your device.Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia | Betty Wood. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
