In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity.
Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations.
Using a vast array of primary sources, Slave against Slave e.
Lsu Press Slave against slave: plantation violence in the old south, paperback/jeff forret
