Dwelling Place

by Erskine Clarke

  —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