ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is the most thorough analysis of slavery on the Georgia coast that we likely ever have. Based on extensive examination of probate records and statistics, she fully integrates the roots of African slavery into the long history of slavery in Georgia.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Julia Floyd Smith is professor emerita of history at Georgia Southern College and the author of Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Illustrations

Tables

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE:
PRODUCTION OF RICE

Chapter One
Tidewater Culture in the Colonial Era

Chapter Two
Expansion of Slavery and Profitability of Tidewater Plantations in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter Three
The Labor of Low Country Slaves

Chapter Four
Overseers and Drivers

Chapter Five
The Factorage System and Plantation Supply

PART TWO:
THE SLAVES

Chapter Six
The Slave Trade, International and Domestic

Chapter Seven
Care, Maintenance, and Health of Low Country Slaves

Chapter Eight
Marching to Zion: The Religion of Slaves in Coastal Georgia

Chapter Nine
Slave Culture on the Georgia Coast

Chapter Ten
Slave Resistance, Free Negroes, and Racial Attitudes in Coastal Georgia

Conclusion

Appendix A.
Agricultural and Population Statistics for Low Country Georgia

Appendix B.
Noted Rice Planters of Coastal Georgia

Bibliography

Index

ARIAIL, JULIUS

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