Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South
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Overview
Elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the South. Interwoven with this major argument are two subthemes. One centers on the fact that by the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some of the chief transmitters of Africanism; the other focuses on how gender based distinctions of the elderly became blurred. Although the roles of the elderly often changed, elderly slaves contributed to the plantation economy. It is also true that those old people who were incapacitated posed serious economic and social concerns for owners, although many of the problems of elderly care were solved by the compassion of slave community members(Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1992; revised with new preface and index)
Synopsis
Elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the South. Interwoven with this major argument are two subthemes. One centers on the fact that by the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some of the chief transmitters of Africanism; the other focuses on how gender based distinctions of the elderly became blurred. Although the roles of the elderly often changed, elderly slaves contributed to the plantation economy. It is also true that those old people who were incapacitated posed serious economic and social concerns for owners, although many of the problems of elderly care were solved by the compassion of slave community members
(Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1992; revised with new preface and index)
Booknews
Demonstrates that elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the south. Two subthemes of this argument relate to the fact that the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some of the chief transmitters of Africanism, and to how gender-based distinctions of the elderly became blurred. The author also discusses the economic and social concerns that incapacitated elderly people posed for owners, and how many of these problems were solved by the compassion of slave community members. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.