[PDF.18yj] "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Women in American History)

"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowcountry Georgia during 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 were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planter...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget."Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Women in American History)   |  Daina Berry. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.