Owens'' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers'' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave''s experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.

Owens'' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers'' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave''s experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.