Full name: The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

Author: John W. Blassingame Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195025637 0195025636

Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline. Similar books: Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Gabriel's Rebellion by Douglas R. Egerton White over Black by Winthrop D. Jordan Complicity by Anne Farrow A Nation under Our Feet by Steven Hahn Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer