The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South is a book written by American historian John W. Blassingame. It is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the U.S. to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved. The book was considered the authoritative text on slavery in America until the 1950s, but has since been criticized by scholars for being biased and racist.
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South is a book written by American historian John W. Blassingame. It is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the U.S. to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved. The Slave Community contradicted those historians who had interpreted history to suggest that African-American slaves were docile and submissive “Sambos” The book is a foundational text in the study of the life and culture of slaves in the antebellum South. The book was considered the authoritative text on slavery in America until the 1950s, but has since been criticized by scholars for being biased and racist. It was published in 1972, and in 1979 a revised and enlarged edition of The Slave community was published. It has been translated into English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Spanish and is available for purchase on Amazon.com for about $20. It can be ordered by clicking here or clicking here for the Kindle version and the paperback version of this article for $15. It includes a free copy of the revised and expanded edition of the book as well as the original version of the Kindle edition for $10 and the original Kindle version for $5.
It also includes a copy of The Book of Negroes: The World the Black Majority Made Made by the Negroes from 1670 through the 1670s, by Peter H. Wood, Leslie Howard Owens, and Lawrence Levine. For more on these studies, go to: http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Of-Negroes-The-World-The Black Majority: The World-the-Black- Majority Made By The Negroes From 1670-1670, and http:// www.thebook-of-negroes.co.uk/Black-Village-Folk-Folks-Made-By-The Black-Masses-From 1670–1670-1750, by Lawrence Levine, Herbert G. Gutman, and Eugene D. Roll: The Making of the Black Community: The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750–1925, 1750-1925. For. more on the controversial studies, see: Herbert G Gutman’s Black Family: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South, and Peter H., Howard Owens’s This This Species of Property: Slave Life in South Carolina from 1750 to 1925 and Lawrence Levine’s Black Culture and Folk Folk Folk: Black Consciousness from Afro-American Folk to Freedom, 1750 to 1955. For a. more detailed look at some of the more controversial studies of Slavery in the South, visit: www.slavery-in-the south.org/slavery-in the-south/slave-life-and-culture/slaves-culture.html.
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