The volume and series editors have contracted with Facts on File Publishers for the publication of a stand alone set of volumes in the American Life and Culture Series, and the editors are searching for contributors to submit to a volume within the series titled, "Slave Life and Slave Culture." The due date for submissions will be September 1, 2008 contributors will receive $250 for each contribution. The contributions will contain the following components:
1) an objective explanatory essay about a specific topic (3000-4000 words); and 2) primary sources (3000-7000words). The essay will provide an overview; the primary material will provide first-hand accounts and the documentation to support the overview. Typically primary materials will consist of oral history, letters, diaries, newspapers, and autobiographies; the journalistic record is a basic resource.
Please submit a short bio/cv and indicated which Topic/Sub-topic you are interested in contributing to Dr. Brian Johnson: bjohnson@jcsu.edu
The table of contents for the volume on Slave Life and Culture might include the following topics and sub-topics, which contributors are free to choose from or make suggestions for sub-topics:
1. Commerce
The Slave Market and Sales
Plantation Operating Budget
Manumission
Slave jobs
Barter
“Hiring out”
2. Communication
Oral Histories
Coded Messages among Slaves
Language and dialect
3. Creative Expression
Music
Crafts
Folk Tales
Art
Dance
Quilting
4. Education
Literacy
Job Training
Manners
5. Daily Life
6. Family
Marriage
Childrearing
Divorce
Funerals/death
Birth
Childhood
Adolescence
Dating/courting
7. Government and Politics
Emancipation: The effects of freedom
Slave Codes
The Slavery Debate
8. Law and Enforcement
Slave Punishment
Plantation law
Escapes/runaways
Underground railroad
State law affecting slavery
Slavery and the courts
9. Medicine and Science
Common illnesses
Doctors and healthcare
Folk Remedies
10. Recreation
Plantation Holidays
Games
Inter-plantation barn dances
11. Religion
White Christianity and Attitudes toward Slaves
Black Christianity (Belief/Practice and Preachers/Institutions)
Voodoo
African Religious traditions
Attitudes of specific religious groups toward slavery
12. Conflict—In this Case Slave Revolts
Slave violence
Abolitionist protest
Slave revolts
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