Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians by Lawton, Christopher R.
Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians by Lawton, Christopher R.

Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians

WINNER: 2022 Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History, Georgia Archives HONORABLE MENTION: Georgia Author of the...
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Author: Christopher R. Lawton
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Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians by Lawton, Christopher R.

Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians

$433.93
Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians by Lawton, Christopher R.

Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians

$433.93
Author: Christopher R. Lawton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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WINNER: 2022 Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History, Georgia Archives
HONORABLE MENTION: Georgia Author of the Year, Georgia Writers Association

Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The hundreds of men and women kept in bondage by the Cobb-Lamar family, one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families in antebellum America, labored in households and on plantations that spanned Georgia. Fragments of their lives were captured in thousands of letters written between family members, who recorded the external experiences of the enslaved but never fully reckoned with their humanity. Drawn together for the first time, these fragments reveal a community that maintained bonds of affection, kinship, and support across vast distances of space, striving to make their experiences in slavery more bearable.

Christopher R. Lawton, Laura E. Nelson, and Randy L. Reid have meticulously excavated the vast Cobb Family Papers at the University of Georgia to introduce into the historical record the lives of Aggy Carter and her father George, Rachel Lamar Cole, Alfred Putnam, Berry Robinson, Bob Scott, and Sylvia Shropshire and her daughter Polly. Each experienced enslavement in ways that were at once both remarkably different and similar. Seen/Unseen tells their stories through four interconnected chapters, each supported by a careful selection of primary source documents and letters. After mapping the underlying structures that supported the wealth and power of the Cobb-Lamar family, the authors then explore how those same pathways were used by the
enslaved to function within the existing system, confront the limitations placed on them, challenge what they felt were its worst injustices, and try to shape the boundaries of their own lives.

Author: Christopher R. Lawton
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 04/01/2021
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780820358970

About the Author
Christopher R. Lawton (Editor)
CHRISTOPHER R. LAWTON is an independent scholar and writer. He earned his Ph.D in history from the University of Georgia in 2011. He has worked with Laura E. Nelson and Randy L. Reid on the nonprofit Georgia Virtual History Project for the past decade.

Laura E. Nelson (Editor)
LAURA E. NELSON is an independent scholar and writer and an alumna of the University of Georgia's history department.

Randy L. Reid (Editor)
RANDY L. REID is the chair of the humanities department at Athens Academy in Athens, Georgia. He earned his PhD in history from Louisiana State University in 1995.


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