Old age and American slavery / David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University.

"This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Doddington, David Stefan, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:Cambridge studies on the American South.
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505 0 |a "As to those more advanced in life" : old age in slavery -- "Old and broken now; no tongue can tell how much I suffer" : sale, abandonment, and neglect -- "Young people think that old people are fools but old people know that young people are fools" : intergenerational conflict among the enslaved -- "Don't kill such an old creature as I" : old age and community tension -- "You won't notice me now but you'll wish you had" : conjure, community, and intergenerational conflict -- "The summer of my life was passing away" : resistance, old age, and surviving slavery -- "Old God damn son-of-a-bitch, she gone on down to hell" : elderly enslavers and enslaved resistance -- "They are getting too old and weak" : aged mastery and white conflict -- "Something must be done with the old man" : dominion after death -- "Let our women and our old men...be disabused of the false and unfounded notion that slavery is sinful" : emancipation contested. 
520 |a "This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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