Strategies for Survival

Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia

By:

William Dusinberre

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Carter G. Woodson Institute Series

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Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews - conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers - are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African Americans; thus, the interviewees almost certainly spoke more frankly than they would otherwise have done. Dusinberre uses the interviews to assess the strategies by which slaves sought to survive, despite the severe constrictions bondage imposed upon their lives. Religion and escape were common means of coping with the indignity of family disruption, contempt, and the harsh realities of slavery. However, while Dusinberre recognizes the creativity and variety of slaves' responses to oppression, he acknowledges the dispiriting realities of the limits of slave resistance and agency.

Author Biography:

William Dusinberre, Reader in History Emeritus at the University of Warwick in England, is the author of Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk, Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure (Virginia), and the award-winning Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps.

Release date NZ

August 13th, 2009

Author

William Dusinberre

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

2 maps, 2 tables

Pages

256

Series

Carter G. Woodson Institute Series

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780813928227

Product ID

3555495

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