Can I read Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 on EtoBox?

Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 by Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 about?

Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value s

Who reads Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775?

Author

Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9798890871046

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, History