BLUnique insights into the workings of slavery in the Antebullum American SouthIn this close study of slavery in the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia, the emphasis is principally on the human relations of slavery, both black and white.
The majority of Dusinberre's research is based upon a careful reading and close analysis of a variety of published sources. Dusinberre's description of life and death at Gowne between 1833 and 1865 constitutes one of the most fully realized and horrific portraits of slavery on a single North American plantation ever written ... Them Dark Days is often so combative and polemical in its interpretation that its author must have expected to provoke controversy. I hope and expect that students of the subject will be reading and debating Them Dark Days for years to come.
