“Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Women in American History)

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“Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe” compares the work, circle of relatives, and economic experiences of enslaved men and women in upcountry and lowcountry Georgia all the way through the nineteenth century. Mining planters’ daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves’ experiences on large plantations, which have been essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters’ interests in sharing their workforces allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves’ internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals essential new ways of figuring out what it meant to be a female or male slave, in addition to how private and non-private aspects of slave life influenced every other at the plantation

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