"Swing the sickle for the harvest is ripe" : gender and slavery in antebellum Georgia / Daina Ramey Berry.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Women in American history.
Main Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007], ©2007.
Series:Women in American history.
Subjects:
Enslaved women > Georgia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Georgia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Sex role > Georgia > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Georgia > Wilkes County > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Georgia > Glynn County > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Georgia > History > 19th century.
Community life > Georgia > Wilkes County > History > 19th century.
Community life > Georgia > Glynn County > History > 19th century.
Wilkes County (Ga.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Glynn County (Ga.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:xvi, 224 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "I had to work hard, plow, and go and split wood jus' like a man" : skill, gender, and productivity in agricultural settings
  • "Dey s'lected me out to be a housegirl" : the privileges and pain of nonagricultural labor
  • "There sho' was a sight of us" : enslaved family and community rituals
  • "O, I never has forgot dat last dinner wit my folks" : enslaved family and community realities
  • "For the current year" : the informal economy and slave hiring.