Sold down the river slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / Anthony Gene Carey.

Author/creator Carey, Anthony Gene
Other author Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
Other author Troup County Historical Society.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
Descriptionx, 263 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Contents Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.
General note"Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010048793
ISBN9780817317416 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0817317414 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780817385668 (electronic)
ISBN0817385665 (electronic)

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