Carey, Anthony Gene.

Sold down the river slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / [electronic resource] : Anthony Gene Carey. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011. - x, 263 p. : ill., maps.

"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.


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Slavery--Chattahoochee River Valley.
Slavery--History.--Chattahoochee River Valley


Chattahoochee River Valley--History.


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