Author : Jeff Forret
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Slave against Slave by : Jeff Forret
Download or read book Slave against Slave written by Jeff Forret and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Using a vast array of primary sources, Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, the book also deepens understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how they sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. With this groundbreaking work, Forret has opened a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.