Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

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  • Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 Book Detail

  • Author : Marvin L. Michael Kay
  • Release Date : 2000-11-09
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 421
  • ISBN 13 : 080786238X
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
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Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 by Marvin L. Michael Kay PDF Summary

Book Description: Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.

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Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in fa