Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,Publication Website: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807845905/sweet-chariot/
Coverage: 1v. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Additional Info: Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive research, is both a statistical study over time of 155 slave communities in twenty-six Louisiana parishes and a descriptive study of three plantations: Oakland, Petite Anse, and Tiger Island.