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In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed.



Table of Contents

Introduction: The Black Family in the Public Imagination: What’s Slavery and Slavery Scholarship Got to Do with It?

Beginnings

Chapter One: Traditions from Whence They Came: Marriage and Family in Western/Central Africa at the Time of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Chapter Two: The Colonial Slave Family: Foundations and Creations

Chapter Three: Traditions of Resistance and Family

The Antebellum Familial Experience

Chapter Four: Antebellum Courtship and Marital Rituals

Chapter Five: Antebellum Family Life

Chapter Six: Death and Resurrection

Conclusion: Bob Samuels’ American Family

What Sorrows Labour in My Parents Breast

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
      Publication Date: 4/21/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781442252165, 978-1442252165
      ISBN10: 1442252162

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction: The Black Family in the Public Imagination: What’s Slavery and Slavery Scholarship Got to Do with It?

      Beginnings

      Chapter One: Traditions from Whence They Came: Marriage and Family in Western/Central Africa at the Time of the Atlantic Slave Trade

      Chapter Two: The Colonial Slave Family: Foundations and Creations

      Chapter Three: Traditions of Resistance and Family

      The Antebellum Familial Experience

      Chapter Four: Antebellum Courtship and Marital Rituals

      Chapter Five: Antebellum Family Life

      Chapter Six: Death and Resurrection

      Conclusion: Bob Samuels’ American Family

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