| Description |
x, 263 p. : ill., maps. |
| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Chattahoochee River Valley.
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Slavery -- Chattahoochee River Valley -- History.
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Chattahoochee River Valley -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
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Troup County Historical Society.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780817317416 (cloth alk. paper) |
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0817317414 (cloth alk. paper) |
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9780817385668 (electronic bk.) |
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