Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Knight, Frederick

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who...
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Author: Frederick Knight
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Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Knight, Frederick

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom

$551.53

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom

$551.53
Author: Frederick Knight
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her renowned autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, if her grandmother, a free black woman named Molly Horniblow, had not enabled Jacobs' escape from slavery?

In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal role of elders in the history of African American community formation through Reconstruction.

Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, letters, diaries, meeting minutes, and state and federal archives, Knight also examines how blacks and whites, men and women, the young and the old developed competing ideas about age and aging, differences that shaped social relations in coastal West and West Central Africa, the Atlantic and domestic slave trades, colonial and antebellum Southern slave societies, and emancipation in the North and South.

Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans, the day-to-day struggles they waged around their experiences of aging, and how they drew upon these resources to define the meaning of family, community, and freedom.

Author: Frederick Knight
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 02/02/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781512825664

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