Brenda E Stevenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda E Stevenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENSON B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
They Called Her Angela
Despite the arrival of African captives in other European settler communities at least 100 years before pirated Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, it was in that colony that much of the roadmap for North America’s Black slave society was created. Virginia, after all, imported the largest numbers of Africans to North America, held resident the continent’s largest enslaved Black population in the colonial and antebellum eras, and had the first e…
Ships, Borders, Community, Prices, the Archive, and More
Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves
Family and Community in Slave Narratives
This essay is a survey of the attitudes, ideals, and experiences described by enslaved blacks regarding their family and community lives. It seeks to answer the following: How did enslaved people speak of family and community in their ancestral homes and in other parts of the Black Atlantic? What persons were included? Who was excluded? How valuable were these “connections” to the enslaved? How were they formed? How were they destroyed? How did t…
Years a Slave
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
n First published in 2013; First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2015.\n
Introduction
What's Love Got to Do With It? Concubinage and Enslaved Women and Girls in the Antebellum South
The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed's much-lauded book (it has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was a national best seller) is an ambitious attempt to re-create the lives of several generations of one slave family in the American South. Gordon-Reed traces this family from one of their original African ancestors, who arrived in Virginia during the colonial era, through the antebellum decades. This is not just any extended enslaved family, h…
Introduction
The Question of the Slave Female Community and Culture in the American South
Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca down
Latasha Haruns, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin
Lite in Black and White
This book provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia—weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-18th century to the Civil War. Loudoun County's most illustrious families—the Lees, Masons, Carters, Monroes, and Peytons—helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that b…
Slave Marriage and Family Relations
The chapter discusses the inherent difficulties of romance, courtship, and marriage in the slave community. Though their masters did have the final say on all their dealings and associations, many slaves chose the path of resistance should the intervention prove unbearable. Each slave community functioned as an extended family, forming bonds of kinship, and creating its own conventions that heavily influenced the choices of their members regardin…
Slave Family Structure
Interstate slave trade and the nature of a slave's work—be it in the plantation or for domestic duties—has greatly hindered the formation of social connections among these people. For the minority who were able to establish a nuclear family, the basic lack of rights over their own persons precluded any semblance of normal family life. Thus, several variations—extended nuclear families, single-parent groupings, same-sex groupings, single adolescen…
Life in Black and White
Life in Black and White
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans-whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in an…
Life in Black and White
Journal Article Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. By Brenda E. Stevenson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 457 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-509536-7.) Get access Jane Turner Censer Jane Turner Censer George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1373–1374, https://doi.org/1…
Life in Black and White
Ambiguous Lives
We Were Always Free
Women & Sisters
Journal Article Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. Byjean Fagan Yellin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xxii + 226 pp. $25.00.) Get access Brenda E. Stevenson Brenda E. Stevenson University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1361–1362, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078316 Published: 0…
What's Love Got to Do With It? Concubinage and Enslaved Women and Girls in the Antebellum South
The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed's much-lauded book (it has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was a national best seller) is an ambitious attempt to re-create the lives of several generations of one slave family in the American South. Gordon-Reed traces this family from one of their original African ancestors, who arrived in Virginia during the colonial era, through the antebellum decades. This is not just any extended enslaved family, h…
Introduction
Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca down
Life in Black and White
Journal Article Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. By Brenda E. Stevenson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 457 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-509536-7.) Get access Jane Turner Censer Jane Turner Censer George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1373–1374, https://doi.org/1…
Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves
The Question of the Slave Female Community and Culture in the American South
Women & Sisters
Journal Article Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. Byjean Fagan Yellin. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xxii + 226 pp. $25.00.) Get access Brenda E. Stevenson Brenda E. Stevenson University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1361–1362, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078316 Published: 0…
Ambiguous Lives
We Were Always Free
Lite in Black and White
This book provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia—weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-18th century to the Civil War. Loudoun County's most illustrious families—the Lees, Masons, Carters, Monroes, and Peytons—helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that b…
Slave Marriage and Family Relations
The chapter discusses the inherent difficulties of romance, courtship, and marriage in the slave community. Though their masters did have the final say on all their dealings and associations, many slaves chose the path of resistance should the intervention prove unbearable. Each slave community functioned as an extended family, forming bonds of kinship, and creating its own conventions that heavily influenced the choices of their members regardin…
Slave Family Structure
Interstate slave trade and the nature of a slave's work—be it in the plantation or for domestic duties—has greatly hindered the formation of social connections among these people. For the minority who were able to establish a nuclear family, the basic lack of rights over their own persons precluded any semblance of normal family life. Thus, several variations—extended nuclear families, single-parent groupings, same-sex groupings, single adolescen…
Life in Black and White
Life in Black and White
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans-whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in an…
Life in Black and White
Journal Article Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. By Brenda E. Stevenson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 457 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-509536-7.) Get access Jane Turner Censer Jane Turner Censer George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1373–1374, https://doi.org/1…
Life in Black and White
Latasha Haruns, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin
Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca down
Introduction
The Question of the Slave Female Community and Culture in the American South
The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed's much-lauded book (it has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was a national best seller) is an ambitious attempt to re-create the lives of several generations of one slave family in the American South. Gordon-Reed traces this family from one of their original African ancestors, who arrived in Virginia during the colonial era, through the antebellum decades. This is not just any extended enslaved family, h…
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
n First published in 2013; First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2015.\n
Introduction
What's Love Got to Do With It? Concubinage and Enslaved Women and Girls in the Antebellum South
Family and Community in Slave Narratives
This essay is a survey of the attitudes, ideals, and experiences described by enslaved blacks regarding their family and community lives. It seeks to answer the following: How did enslaved people speak of family and community in their ancestral homes and in other parts of the Black Atlantic? What persons were included? Who was excluded? How valuable were these “connections” to the enslaved? How were they formed? How were they destroyed? How did t…
Years a Slave
Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves
Ships, Borders, Community, Prices, the Archive, and More
They Called Her Angela
Despite the arrival of African captives in other European settler communities at least 100 years before pirated Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, it was in that colony that much of the roadmap for North America’s Black slave society was created. Virginia, after all, imported the largest numbers of Africans to North America, held resident the continent’s largest enslaved Black population in the colonial and antebellum eras, and had the first e…
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