This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South / Edition 1

by Leslie Howard Owens

Overview

In some areas of analysis This Species of Property provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere. Its appearance is another welcome indication that the slaves rather than their owners are now holding the center of the historiographical stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195022452
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/22/1977
Series:	Galaxy Books
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 8.52(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

Editorial Reviews

"A major work because of its unprecedented use of plantation records to augment ex-slave autobiographies and narratives...[It] establishes Leslie Howard Owens as a major historian of Afro-American slavery."—The New Republic

"Provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere."—Journal of Southern History

"Excellent book...[It offers] great insight into the lives of the slaves as well as providing a good demonstration of historical methodology."—Terence Roehrig, Cardinal Stritch College

"A work of original scholarship presented in an accessible and 'student-friendly' style."—John Rhinehart, San Bernadino Valley College

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