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Smith, Dale Edwyna. "The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820 to 1868," History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University, May 1993. Advisor: Stephan Thernstrom/Catherine Clinton (Old South History, 1, 2 )
The point of this study is power: who exercised it—and over whom—and who did not. Based in this black slave majority cotton-producing county, this study challenges the view that a “paternalistic” ethos allowed black slaves to negotiate certain freedoms within a system of mutual obligation with white slaveowners. Evidence in land and court records, church minutes, diaries, correspondence, slave sale receipts, the WPA interviews of former slaves, and Freedmen’s Bureau records refutes the notion that paternalism held sway in this region. Rather, law, religious rhetoric and physical force impeded freedom for blacks, during slavery and after emancipation.
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