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Born in Bondage

Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South

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$33.00 • £26.95 • €29.50

ISBN 9780674007208

Publication Date: 09/01/2001

Short

288 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

19 halftones, 2 maps

World

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  • Introduction
  • 1. Birth of a Slave
  • 2. New Mothers and Fathers
  • 3. Young Children in the Quarter
  • 4. Education in the Middle Years
  • 5. To the Field
  • 6. Risk of Sale and Separation
  • 7. Young Love and Marriage
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Awards & Accolades

  • 2001 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
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