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Author Dunaway, Wilma A.

Title The African-American family in slavery and emancipation / Wilma A. Dunaway.

Publication Info. New York : Maison des Sciences de l'homme/Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.362 D897A    Check Shelf
Description xi, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in modern capitalism
Studies in modern capitalism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index.
Contents Slave trading and forced labor migrations -- Family diasporas and parenthood lost -- Malnutrition, ecological risks, and slave mortality -- Reproductive exploitation and child mortality -- Slave household subsistence and women's work -- The impacts of Civil War on slave families -- The risks of emancipation for black families -- Reconstruction threats to black family survival -- Theoretical reprise.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
African American families -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African American families -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History.
Freed persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions.
ISBN 0521812763
0521012163 paperback
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