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Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia
Women's Work Men's Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia
Author: Betty Wood
Examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780820316673
ISBN-10: 0820316679
Publication Date: 2/1995
Pages: 247
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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