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Author LinkBerry, Daina Ramey.  
Title Link"Swing the sickle for the harvest is ripe" : gender and slavery in antebellum Georgia / Daina Ramey Berry.  
Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.  
Physical Descrip. xvi, 224 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm.  
Series LinkWomen in American history  
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.  
Contents "I had to work hard, plow, and go and split wood jus’ like a man" : skill, gender, and productivity in agricultural settings -- "Dey s’lected me out to be a housegirl" : the privileges and pain of nonagricultural labor -- "There sho’ was a sight of us" : enslaved family and community rituals -- "O, I never has forgot dat last dinner wit my folks" : enslaved family and community realities -- "For the current year" : the informal economy and slave hiring.  
Subject(s) LinkWomen slaves -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.  
LinkSlaves -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.  
LinkSex role -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.  
LinkSlavery -- Georgia -- Wilkes County -- History -- 19th century.  
LinkSlavery -- Georgia -- Glynn County -- History -- 19th century.  
LinkSlavery -- Economic aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.  
LinkCommunity life -- Georgia -- Wilkes County -- History -- 19th century.  
LinkCommunity life -- Georgia -- Glynn County -- History -- 19th century.  
Subject(s) LinkWilkes County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.  
LinkGlynn County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.  
Link to Online   Table of contents only  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006100938.html 
  Publisher description  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2006100938-d.html 
ISBN 9780252031465 (cloth : alk. paper)  
0252031466 (cloth : alk. paper)  
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