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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps - Softcover

Dusinberre, William

 
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<p><i>Them Dark Days</i> is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery&;s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment.<br><br>Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers&; letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, <i>Them Dark Days</i> offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.</p>

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WILLIAM DUSINBERRE is Reader Emeritus in American History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of <i>Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure</i> and <i>Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865</i>.

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