Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820322105 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent! Excellent book about a painful subject. It was recommended by Dr. Edna Fields-Black at the National Coming to the Table Gathering. Having visited the lowcountry a number of times, I wanted to learn more about the history of the area. This is the counter-story to the huge plantatio. B. Witt said Fantastic. As a student of history (Ok - I'll grant you I have only a dilettante status) I must say this is a book that everyone should read. Dusinberre doesn't spare the grisly details and approaches the subject from a variety of angles. You'll get the view of the charnel house and from pla
(Charles Joyner Coastal Carolina College)The best local history of slavery published since Charles Joyner's Down by the Riverside An important corrective to recent scholarship and adds new meaning to the neo-abolitionist interpretation. (Journal of American History)A vast and multifaceted new interpretation of slavery. I found Them Dark Days both stimulating and enjoyable. Dusinberre's arguments are compelling. (Agricultural History)There is no other book quite like Them Dark Days. Dusinberre has a great deal to say that is fresh and exciting about slavery, and his writing style is always clear and often eloquent
It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment.Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers’ letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.. Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast
William Dusinberre is Reader Emeritus in American History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of "Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure" and "Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865."