Research Catalog

Title

Slavery in Mississippi / Charles S. Sydnor ; new introduction by John David Smith.

Author

Sydnor, Charles S. (Charles Sackett), 1898-1954.

Publication

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

270 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Slavery in Mississippi, first published in 1933, is a deeply researched and tightly argued social and economic study of slave life in Mississippi by Charles S. Sydnor (1898-1954). Inspired by Ulrich B. Phillips's American Negro Slavery (1918) and Life and Labor in the Old South (1929), Sydnor strived to test Phillips's contention that slavery was simultaneously a benign institution for African American slaves and an unprofitable one for their masters. Sydnor included path-breaking chapters on such broad scholarly topics as slave labor, slave trading, and the profitability of slavery, but he also examined in depth slave clothing, food, shelter, physical and social care, police control, slave fugitives, and punishments and rewards. More thorough than many previous historians, Sydnor examined how slavery "worked" as a social and economic system--how slaves actually lived, how planters bought, cared for, controlled, hired out, and sold their human property. Historian John David Smith's new introduction to this Southern Classic edition frames the original text within the scholarship on slavery in the interwar years, presents its arguments, chronicles its reception by white and black critics, and highlights the ongoing debates about slavery, especially on the profitability of slavery and the conditions of slave life sparked by Sydnor's influential book"--

Series Statement

Southern classics series

Subject

• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
• Slavery > Mississippi
• Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions
• African Americans > Mississippi > History
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina."
• Originally published: New York : D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated [c1933]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Work -- Clothing, Food, and Shelter -- Physical and Social Care -- Plantation and Police Control of Slaves -- Punishments and Rewards 000 Chapter 6: Fugitives -- Buying, Selling, and Hiring -- Profitableness of Slavery -- Contemporary Opinions.

ISBN

• 9781611173321 (pbk.)
• 1611173329 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013020628

OCLC

• 841893857
• SCSB-11600531

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library