The Slave Community
John. W. Blessingame, The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press, Inc: 1972, 1979).
John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar, historian, educator, writer, and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor's degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969, a master's degree at Howard University in 1961, and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater in 1974 at Yale University. He was a professor of history, African-American studes, and American Studies for 29 years. His repatoir of books that he has written and published include: The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, Black New Orleans 1860-1880, Frederick Douglass, The Clarion Voice, and Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. In additon to publishing his own books, he also co-authored and co-edited two other published works.
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