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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Slavery--Chattahoochee River Valley. Slavery--History.--Chattahoochee River Valley