—as butlers
—as careful observers of whites
—as carpenters; apprenticed; and building of Maybank; and building of Montevideo; make coffins
—cemeteries of; at Carlawter; at Maybank; at Old Field; as place of ancestors; at Rice Hope
—children, of white fathers
—and the Civil War: response to fall of Savannah; response to Yankee presence on the coast
—clothes of
—as cooks; cooking utensils
—and culture
—and dance
—doctors for
—as domestics
—entertainment of
—as fishermen
—as gardeners
—gardens of
—“hiring out” of selves
—hopes for a different future by
—houses of; improvements in; relationship to religion and morals; in Savannah
—isolation of in low country
—as midwives and healers
—morality of: negative views of whites; positive views
—moved around by owners: beyond Liberty County; within Liberty County
—music of
—names and naming practices of; claim family names
—as nurses
—population, natural increase of
—possessions of; and annual stipends; buggies; and debts to other slaves; horses; and invested savings; livestock; plundered by Yankee troops; and sale of
—as property: left in wills; in marriage contracts; regarded as money; to be respected by neighbors
—provisions for
—punishment of. See also Whipping of slaves and free blacks
—regarded as part of white households; exposed as fraud
—religion of; baptism; Lord’s Supper; membership in churches; and sacred cosmos; and stability of population
—religious instruction of, response to by whites
—revolts by
—sales of; in Charleston; in New Orleans; in Riceboro; in Savannah
—as seamstresses
—suicides by
—and the supernatural: charms; conjuring; denounced; dreams; ghosts and witches; travels or travails. See also Slaves: religion of
—views of, by whites
—women, stereotypes of: Jezebel; Mammy; Surly Troublemaker
—woodcarvings by
—work of: by children; in cotton fields; in provision fields; in rice fields; as sawyers. See also Slave drivers
Social Bluff plantation; burned by marauders; natural increase in slave population
Solitude plantation
South, commitments to; questions about
South Carolina: as center of opposition to religious instruction of slaves; military culture of; “notions”. See also Charleston, S.C.; Columbia, S.C.
South Carolina College; and infidelity
Southern Union for the Religious Instruction of Slaves
Southern Zion
South Hampton plantation
Southwest Georgia, and breakup of seaboard slave communities; as sanctuary for fleeing Southern whites
Spirituals
Springfield plantation
Sublime, the, experiences of
Summer homes. See also Maybank plantation; Sunbury, Ga.; Walthourville, Ga.; Woodville plantation
Sunbury, Ga.
Sunbury Academy
Sunbury Baptist Association
Sunbury Baptist Church; burned by Yankees;
slave membership of
Sunday Schools, for slaves
Task system; and after task work
Technological developments. See also Medical practices; Transportation
Theological themes; Bible, role of; forgiveness; freedom of the will; grace; Jesus Christ; providence; quest for self knowledge; response to defeat and loss of Civil War; salvation; sin; vocation
Trails, networks of
Transportation: buggies; canal boats; carriages; gig; gunboats; oxcarts; plantation boats; railroads; railroads and breakup of settlements; revolution of; sailing ships; stage coach; steamboats; steamships; wagons
Trickster tales. See also Folktales, slave
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. See also Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A
Unionism
Up-country, Georgia
Usefulness to society, as highly regarded value
Utopian vision. See also Ideology of slavery
Violence, slave against slave
Visiting: by whites; in Savannah; by slaves
Walthourville, Ga.; and arson; Presbyterian church of; summer home in
War of 1812
Washington, D.C.
Watchmen; and emergence of black church; mediate differences among slaves; meetings of; provide moral guidance; support slave marriages
“Weapons of the weak”
Weddings: slave; white
Whipping of slaves and free blacks
White Oak plantation; and breakup of settlement; and freed people; natural increase in slave population
Wife house
Wives, slave; efforts to stay with husbands; rights said to possess; separated from husbands
Wives, white; relationship to husbands. See also Husbands, white
Women, slave: and agricultural work; and their anger; and leadership in church; nurses white child; and relationship to white women; in Savannah; and varied strategies for resistance; See also Slaves: women, stereotypes of
Women, white: dependent relationship to men; education of; and food preparation; independence, of; nurses slave child; as plantation mistress and manager; relationship to slave women; resist submission to men; role of
Woodmanston plantation
Woodville plantation; burned by marauders; rebuilt
Yale College
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