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This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South (Galaxy Books)

paperback – September 22, 1977
by Owens, Leslie Howard
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ISBN-13: 9780195022452 ISBN-10: 0195022459
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Binding
paperback
Published
September 22, 1977
Weight
0.5 lbs
Dimensions
21.60×2.10×14.20 cm

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This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South (Galaxy Books) by Owens, Leslie Howard. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780195022452.

Owens fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers accounts, and other items bearing on the slaves experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.