Sweet Chariot : Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Language: English
Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London, 1992
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Dust jacket is complete but rubbed and worn at edges and corners. All pages free from notes or highlighting. A presentable used copy with no significant flaws. Publisher's note: Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive research, is both a statistical study over time of 155 slave communities in twenty-six Louisiana parishes and a descriptive study of three plantations: Oakland, Petite Anse, and Tiger Island. Malone first provides a regional analysis of family, household, and community organization. Then, drawing on qualitative sources, she discusses patterns in slave family house-hold organization, identifying the most significant ones as well as those that consistently acted as indicators of change. Malone shows that slave community organization strongly reflected where each community was in its own developmental cycle, which in turn was influenced by myriad factors, ranging from impersonal economic conditions to the arbitrary decisions of individual owners. She also projects a statistical model that can be used for comparisons with other populations. The two persistent themes that Malone uncovers are the mutability and yet the constancy of Louisiana slave household organization. She shows that the slave family and its extensions, the slave household and community were far more diverse and adaptable than previously believed. The real strength of the slave community was its multiplicity of forms, its tolerance for a variety of domestic units, and its adaptability. She finds, for example, that the preferred family form consisted of two parents and children but that all types of families and households were accepted as functioning and contributing members of the slave community. "Louisiana slaves had a well-defined and collective vision of the structure that would serve them best and an iron determination to attain it," Malone observes. "But along with this constancy in vision and perseverance was flexibility. Slave domestic forms in Louisiana bent like willows in the wind to keep from shattering. The suppleness of their forms prevented domestic chaos and enabled most slave communities to recover from even serious crises.". Size: 24.8 x 17.1 x 3.8 cm. xiv, 369 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- Family relationships; African Americans -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century; Louisiana -- Population -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century; Louisiana -- Population -- History -- 19th century; ISBN: 0807820261. ISBN/EAN: 9780807820261. Add. Inventory No: 250128RIY0513907.…
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- Title
- Sweet Chariot : Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
- Author
- Ann Patton Malone
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807820261
- ISBN 13
- 9780807820261
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Malone first provides a regional analysis of family, household, and community organization. Then, drawing on qualitative sources, she discusses patterns in slave family household organization, identifying the most significant ones as well as those that consistantly acted as indicators of change. Malone shows that slave community organization strongly reflected where each community was in its own developmental cycle, which in turn was influenced by myriad factors, ranging from impersonal economic conditions to the arbitrary decisions of individual owners. She also projects a statistical model that can be used for comparisons with other populations.
The two persistent themes that Malone uncovers are the mutability and yet the constancy of Louisiana slave household organization. She shows that the slave family and its extensions, the slave household and community, were far more diverse and adaptable than previously believed. The real strength of the slave comunity was its multiplicity of forms, its tolerance for a variety of domestic units and its adaptability. She finds, for example, that the preferred family form consisted of two parents and children but that all types of families and households were accepted as functioning and contributing members of the slave community.
""Louisiana slaves had a well-defined and collective vision of the structure that would serve them best and an iron determination to attain it, "" Malone observes. ""But along with this constancy in vision and perseverance was flexibility. Slave domestic forms in Louisiana bent like willows in the wind to keep from shattering. The suppleness of their forms prevented domestic chaos and enabled most slave communities to recover from even serious crises.""
|Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive research, is both a statistical study over time of 155 slave communities in twenty-six Louisiana parishes and a descriptive study of three plantations: Oakland, Petite Anse, and Tiger Island.
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