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Lockley, Timothy James (2018) The forming and fracturing of families on a South Carolina rice plantation, 1812-1865. The History of the Family, 23 (1). pp. 75-89. doi:10.1080/1081602X.2017.1283529 ISSN 1081-602X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2017.1283529
Abstract
This case study traces family formation among enslaved people on a South Carolina rice plantation owned by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses a rare set of documents to show how enslaved people were brought together mainly via inheritance (rather than purchase) to form a new community, and how they responded to frequent mobility within the holdings of a single planter. It also highlights the peculiar challenges to stable family formation that were unique to the South Carolina lowcountry, including individuals being separated from the main body of the community for periods of time while working on other holdings; the presence of a higher percentage of African-born individuals than was usual for the antebellum South; and the devastating impact of the highest mortality experienced by a mainland slave population.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The History of the Family | ||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1081-602X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 23 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 75-89 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1081602X.2017.1283529 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 January 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 August 2018 | ||||||||
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