Black and white cultural interaction in the antebellum South

by Ted Ownby

Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series

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Questions about the cultural interaction between whites and enslaved blacks in the antebellum South have long aroused controversy. Was there one dominant culture? Two separate cultures? One shared culture? Were interaction and interchange between the races possible? The essays collected here attempt to give answers and conclusions and to bring the picture of cultural life in the antebellum South into clearer focus. With essays and commentaries by Sylvia R. Frey Elliott J. Gorn Robert L. Hall show more Charles Joyner Lawrence T. McDonnell Bill C. Malone Leslie Howard Owens Mechal Sobel Brenda Stevenson John Michael Vlach show less

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Ted Ownby is a professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi

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History, Nonfiction, Anthropology
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975.03History & geographyHistory of North AmericaSoutheastern United States (South Atlantic states)1776-1865: Antebellum Era & Civil War
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E443 .B48History of the United StatesUnited StatesRevolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861Slavery in the United States. Antislavery
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