SLAVERY AND RICE CULTURE IN LOW
COUNTRY GEORGIA
by Julia Floyd Smith
University of Tennessee Press, 1985
Condition: Fine in Fine Dust Jacket

From the front flap: "The rice industry gave coastal Georgia social conditions markedly different from those elsewhere in the South. Julia Floyd Smith examines plantation life in the low country, paying particular attention to the effect of the task system and the leisure that it afforded slaves....The slave had a higher standard of living, enjoying some independence and autonomy. The slave community retained African cultural elements and a sense of its separate identity." Excellent copy.