Gobbets

• Northup ch 12
• Ball Ch 4
• The Emancipator 1838

Questions

What was the normal work routine of the slave? How did it differ from region to region? How did slaves view their normal work load?

Core Reading

• Morgan, Philip D., 'Work and culture: the task system and the world of lowcountry blacks, 1700-1880', WMQ, XXXIX, (1982), 563-599.
• Johnson, Michael P., 'Work, culture and the slave community: slave occupations in the cotton belt in 1860', Labor History, XXVII, (1986), 325-355.

E-resources

• Durrill, Wayne K, 'Routine of seasons: labor regimes & social ritual in an antebellum plantation community' S&A 16 (1995), 161-187
• Outland, Robert B., 'Slavery, work, and the geography of the North Carolina naval stores industry, 1835-1860' JSH 62 (1996), 27-56
• House, Albert, 'Labor-management problems in Georgia rice plantation, 1844-1860' AgHist 28 (1954) 149-155
• Clifton, James, 'The Rice industry in colonial America' Ag Hist (1981)
• Walsh, Lorena, 'Plantation management in the Chesapeake 1620-1820' JEcH (1989)
• Lander, E. M., 'Slave labour in South Carolina cotton mills', JNH, XXXVIII, (1953), 161-73.

Further Reading

• Miller E, & Genovese, E, Plantation town and county, (pt 2)
• Syndor, C. S. Slavery in Mississippi (ch 1)
• Moody, V A, Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations (ch 4)
• Morgan, Philip, Slave Counterpoint (pt 1)
• Hudson, Larry, To have and to hold: slave work and family life in antebellum South Carolina
• Smith. Mark, Time, slavery and freedom in the American South
• Carney, Judith, Black Rice: The origins of rice cultivation in the Americas
• Rivers, Larry, Slavery in Florida: territorial days to emancipation