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Slavery in the cities; the South, 1820-1860 [by] Richard C. Wade.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Oxford University Press, 1964.Description: x, 340 p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0195007557
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E443 .W3
Contents:
I. The Negro's view : Nat Turner : Confessions. Josiah Henson : My first great trial ; My boyhood and youth ; Maimed for life. Solomon Northup : A Louisiana cotton plantation ; A Louisiana sugar plantation. Frederick Douglass : A general survey of the slave plantation ; A slaveholder's character ; A child's reasoning ; Luxuries at the great house. Testimony of the Canadian fugitives : Edward Hicks ; Henry Blue ; Thomas Hedgebeth ; Harry Thomas ; William A. Hall. -- II. The view of the northerners and the British : Isaac Weld ; Basil Hall : A slave auction ; Slave patrols and tobacco ; A rice plantation. Frances Kemble : A residence in Georgia. Frederick Law Olmsted : A tobacco plantation in Virginia ; A free-labor farm in Virginia ; Recreation and luxury among the slaves ; Ingenuity of the negro ; Qualities as a laborer ; Improvement of the negro in slavery ; Educational privileges ; A distinguished divine ; How they are fed ; Lodgings ; Clothing ; Fraternity ; Religious condition. Charles Mackay : The social and political aspects of slavery -- III. The view of the southern white : Thomas Jefferson ; Thomas Roderick Dex ; James Henry Hammond ; George Fitzhugh : The counter current, or slavery principle. Hinton Rowan Helper.
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Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [287]-323]

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I. The Negro's view : Nat Turner : Confessions. Josiah Henson : My first great trial ; My boyhood and youth ; Maimed for life. Solomon Northup : A Louisiana cotton plantation ; A Louisiana sugar plantation. Frederick Douglass : A general survey of the slave plantation ; A slaveholder's character ; A child's reasoning ; Luxuries at the great house. Testimony of the Canadian fugitives : Edward Hicks ; Henry Blue ; Thomas Hedgebeth ; Harry Thomas ; William A. Hall. -- II. The view of the northerners and the British : Isaac Weld ; Basil Hall : A slave auction ; Slave patrols and tobacco ; A rice plantation. Frances Kemble : A residence in Georgia. Frederick Law Olmsted : A tobacco plantation in Virginia ; A free-labor farm in Virginia ; Recreation and luxury among the slaves ; Ingenuity of the negro ; Qualities as a laborer ; Improvement of the negro in slavery ; Educational privileges ; A distinguished divine ; How they are fed ; Lodgings ; Clothing ; Fraternity ; Religious condition. Charles Mackay : The social and political aspects of slavery -- III. The view of the southern white : Thomas Jefferson ; Thomas Roderick Dex ; James Henry Hammond ; George Fitzhugh : The counter current, or slavery principle. Hinton Rowan Helper.