The Slave Community

John. W. Blessingame, The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press, Inc: 1972, 1979). John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar, historian, educator, writer, and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor's degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969, a master's degree at Howard University in 1961, and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater in 1974 at Yale University.

modifications and conflicting perceptions can spin into stereotypes that can be mistaken as fact, instead of fiction. One of Southern history’s most common know stereotype is of the black Mammy. This paper will discuss the depiction of the African-American slave mythological figure - Mammy, and also her opposing character, Jezebel. Mammy’s origins are deeply embedded in the antebellum American South. Historians and scholars state clearly that the Mammy and Jezebel characters are and were fictional, but how

“The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South” by John W. Blassingame is the first book about slavery written by a historian in the viewpoint of slaves rather than slave owners. This book analyzes the experience of slaves in the South during misjudgement and confusion. Blassingame targets the different aspects that have influenced the slaves life and the way they lived it. Blassingame writes this book to encounter you in feeling the pain of the slaves but also how they had their own

John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. In the book titled The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, author John Blassingame’s theme, focused on the history of African slave experience throughout the American South. After much research, the author said in the preface that most historians focused more on the planter instead of the slave. He also pointed out that most of the research on slaves by previous historians

As a product of living with and among other slaves, it would seem inevitable that some sort of communal bonds would form between African-Americans oppressed by the institution of slavery. It is the extent and nature of this community, formed by and for the enslaved, that has long been debated between historians. While much of the last century’s scholarship has followed the predominant theories of its time, historians who excel through differentiated methods or conclusions shape the field and its

who has a voice over a certain group of people will impact only those people. Harriet Tubman, for example, had a huge impact on the slave community. She was known as the “Moses”, leading them to safety. Slave owners did not feel elated at this idea. Their plan was to hunt down and bring back their slaves. Tubman’s actions did not settle in the Southern American community. Eventually, slavery was abolished. But, there are some people today in

Blassingame's book ''The Slave Community,'' which theorizes that the harsh discipline Antwone (like countless children like him) endured as a foster child growing up in Cleveland was an internalized reflection of the abuse his ancestors suffered at the hands of slave owners. Those slave owners, it suggests, loomed as punishing surrogate parents, wielding far more authority than the slaves' own biological parents. To any child, the behavior of an ultimate

the definition of family within slave communities because the slave definition of family not only changed from plantation to plantation, but also slave to slave. Upon reading the secondary sources, “The Shaping of the Afro-American Family,” by Steven Mintz, & Susan Kellogg, "Marriage in Slavery," by Brenda Stevenson, and “Motherhood in Slavery” by Stephanie Shaw, and the primary sources WPA Interviews of former slaves conducted in the 1930s. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'

and the Slave Wars, although published in 2001, compiles documents written from around 79 BCE. The author, Canadian Historian Brent Shaw, compiled translated posters, letters, records, graffiti's, tax declarations, etc. from Greek and Latin sources. Considering the book, Spartacus and the Slave Wars, is a compilation of works it can be considered as a volume focusing on Ancient's slave life, their resistance, and accounts of there "rebellions." In chapters titled Gladiators, Fugitive Slaves, and Maroon

The “Color Complex” and It’s Persisting Effects on the Black Community As African Americans came to the United States the “color complex” was implemented upon them by their white captors. The “color complex” became a means for which white slave owners could divide and conquer their black slaves. With black slaves outnumbering whites on many southern colonies as well as in many of the Caribbean islands, such as Haiti, whites realized that they needed to divide their captors against each other.