New Directions in Slavery Studies by Jeff Forret

Author:Jeff Forret
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2015-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 12, 1864.

2. Ibid., April 6, 1864. See also Daily Richmond Enquirer, April 6, 1864.

3. Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 6, 1864. See also Daily Richmond Enquirer, April 6, 1864; Daily Richmond Examiner, April 14, 1864. In the end, Grandison suffered twenty-five lashes at the hands of the Mayor’s Court and was released at large. Six months later, though, Grandison found himself before the mayor once again, charged not with possessing stolen goods but with “standing in the store of a white person [in this case, his owner’s confectionary shop], selling to slaves and bartering with negroes generally.” No whipping this time, the mayor decreed, with the owner’s promise that the entrepreneurial slave would be sent to the batteries to do his part to bolster the Confederacy’s flagging defenses. Daily Richmond Examiner, October 7, 1864. See also Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 7, 1864.

4. The most comprehensive treatment of Richmond during the Civil War is Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971). For other narratives, see Ernest B. Furgurson, Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War (New York: Vintage, 1996); Nelson Lankford, Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital (New York: Penguin, 2002); Gregg D. Kimball, American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000), 217–52.

5. Though many historians have analyzed the famed Richmond Bread Riots, the most thoughtful is Michael B. Chesson, “Harlots or Heroines: A New Look at the Richmond Bread Riot,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 92 (April 1984): 131–75. For more recent coverage, see Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 178–217.

6. Scholarship on the internal economy of the slave South is extensive and complex. For a summary, with an explication of my own views, see Kathleen M. Hilliard, Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power’s Purchase in the Old South (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

7. Lawrence T. McDonnell has argued that bondpeople’s economic activities in the antebellum period could bring the lives of poor whites and the enslaved into convergence, that the market was a liminal space in which money was master and the alienating nature of commodity exchange might have eroded social hierarchies. This chapter argues that market exchange—and the deteriorating Confederate economy, in particular—made that sort of leveling a reality. Lawrence T. McDonnell, “Work, Culture, and Society in the Slave South, 1790–1861,” in Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South, ed. Ted Ownby (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 125–47.

8. For a particularly illuminating study of this intersection of licit and illicit trade, see Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).

9. Thomas, Confederate State of Richmond, 73–74.

10. Edward M. Alfriend, “Social Life in Richmond during the War,” Cosmopolitan 11 (1891): 229–32; Sallie Brock Putnam, Richmond during the War: Four Years of Personal Observation (New York: G. W.

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