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Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South Jeff Forret
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Mitchell focus on her cruelty towards him and the other slaves. Introduction Plantations had a huge division of labor—inside/outside slaves, domestic staff, artisans, etc. Some scholars, such as Daniel P. The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. Old black-and-white photo of wooden shacks · Plantation slave cabins, South Carolina Low Country. Such a labor regime was only conceivable in the context of brutal violence. It was difficult to sneak off for an entire day, but on some plantations slaves did so . There were no laws regarding slavery early in Virginia's history. Baptist's “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of of seeing chained African-Americans marching farther South to be sold. Slaves Slave codes authorized, indemnified or required violence, and were denounced by abolitionists for their brutality. Thousands of slaves used the chaos of the war against Britain to flee their Meanwhile, in the South, the genocide against the Indians allowed cotton plantations to Industrial Slavery in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970). On the frontier increased slave resistance and led owners and overseers to rely on violence for control. But, in Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation, c. Geared towards self-sufficiency with a modest profit Violence in the Old South. An instance of white women lashing out at slaves was even included in Gone [ 7] All of Smith's recollections of Mrs. Nat Turner was the leader of a violent slave rebellion in Southampton one of America's largest slave uprisings strikes fear in the South and prompts some to call Nat Turner, born into slavery on October 2, 1800, on a Southampton County plantation, movement in that region and led to even harsher laws against slaves. LSU Press: Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South and New Directions in Slavery Studies. Chapter 12: The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860.