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Sold down the river [electronic resource] : slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / Anthony Gene Carey.

By: Carey, Anthony Gene.
Contributor(s): Historic Chattahoochee Commission | Troup County Historical Society | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011Description: x, 263 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Slavery -- Chattahoochee River Valley | Slavery -- Chattahoochee River Valley -- History | Chattahoochee River Valley -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 306.3/6209758 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.
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"Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.