Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

by Ann Patton Malone

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807845906
• ISBN13: 9780807845905
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"