Them Dark Days —— Slavery in the American Rice Swamps

----- 他们黑暗的日子：美国水稻沼泽中的奴隶制

ISBN: 9780195090215 出版年：1996 页码：571 Dusinberre, William Oxford University Press

"Them Dark Days" is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment.Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, "Them Dark Days" offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history."