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Yuletide in Dixie : slavery, Christmas, and Southern memory
- Title
- Yuletide in Dixie : slavery, Christmas, and Southern memory / Robert E. May.
- Author
- May, Robert E.
- Publication
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xv, 332 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Yuletide in Dixie scrutinizes two centuries of stereotypes about U.S. slaves' Christmases. Much has been written about Christmas in the antebellum South, but no book has tackled its place in master-slave relations, addressed black perspectives on holiday privileges, showed how these traditions disintegrated under the stress of the Civil War, or explained how antebellum Christmases were mythologized after the war--as they had been before it--in support of white supremacy. This volume brings to light this compelling story, with implications for contemporary disputes over displaying Confederate flags and preserving Confederate monuments"--
- Subjects
- Southern States
- Slavery
- Christmas
- Collective memory
- African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions
- Slaves > Social conditions
- Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865
- History
- Slavery > Southern States > History
- Christmas > Southern States > History
- Manners and customs
- Slaves > Southern States > Social conditions
- Southern States > Social life and customs > To 1775
- To 1865
- Collective memory > Southern States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Time and punishment -- Purchased at little cost -- Human trafficking on Jesus's birthday -- Gaming the system -- Winters of their discontent -- Ransacking the garret -- Sanitizing the past -- Epilogue: beyond candlelight tours
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1646
- ISBN
- 9780813942148
- 0813942144
- 9780813942155 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019002096
- OCLC
- 1083151953
- Author
- May, Robert E., author.
- Title
- Yuletide in Dixie : slavery, Christmas, and Southern memory / Robert E. May.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1865
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1646JFE 21-8311