This Species of Property Slave Life and Culture in the Old South
, by Owens, Leslie HowardNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780195022452 | 0195022459
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/22/1977
Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of theslave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety ofplantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and otheritems bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders,it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.