Bullwhip days : the slaves remember, an oral history

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Mellon, James, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Avon Books, 1990, ©1988.
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Table of Contents:
  • Narratives / Georgia Baker; Mary Reynolds; Katie Rowe
  • Voices: Slave children, food and cooking, stealing, and fading remembrances of Africa
  • Narratives / Thomas Cole; William Adams; Fanny Cannady
  • Voices: Ghosts and conjuring
  • Narratives / Charley Williams; Jack and Rosa Maddox; Rose Williams
  • Voices: Plantation life, poor white folks, classes of slaves, patrollers, Christmas on the plantation, dancing, corn-shuckings, hog-killings, music, slave marriages,
  • And forced breeding
  • Narratives / Calvin Moye; Isaac Stier; Charlie Moses
  • Voices: Religion and education
  • Narratives / Rachel Cruze; Jacob Manson; Martin Jackson; Josh Horn
  • Voices: Bullwhip days
  • Narratives / George Fleming; Arnold Gragson; Cato Carter; Elmo Steele
  • Voices: slave auctions, forced breeding, rape, and runaways
  • Narratives / John Crawford; Lulu Wilson; William Moore
  • Voices: the Civil War and statutory freedom
  • Narratives / Neal Upson;
  • Charlie Davenport; Ellen Betts
  • Voices: the Reconstruction era, sharecropping, voting, and the Ku Klux Klan
  • Narratives / Mary Grayson; William Colbert; Mollie Dawson
  • Voices: the younger generation, reflections and conclusions.