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Conclusion

from Part II - Enslavers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

David Stefan Doddington
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Old Age and American Slavery reveals how antebellum southerners adapted to, resisted, and failed to overcome changes associated with age, both real and imagined, and the extent to which these struggles intersected with wider concerns over control, exploitation, resistance, and survival in a slave society. In doing so, it asks future scholars to rethink static hierarchies among Black and white southerners, to incorporate age into their work as a category of analysis and as a relation of power, and to address the contingent and contested networks of solidarity and support among enslavers and enslaved in the American South. Age shaped slavery, both as a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, in crucial ways. Albeit never on equal terms, both Black and white southerners had to grapple with the realization that “old age [was] creeping up on me so fast,” and their efforts to do so were entwined in the wider struggles within and against slavery. The ravages of time came for all, and the conclusion reiterates how recognition of this fact shaped the dynamics of American slavery, and the lives of enslaved people and enslavers alike.

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  • Conclusion
  • David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University
  • Book: Old Age and American Slavery
  • Online publication: 27 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127974.012
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  • Conclusion
  • David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University
  • Book: Old Age and American Slavery
  • Online publication: 27 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127974.012
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  • Conclusion
  • David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University
  • Book: Old Age and American Slavery
  • Online publication: 27 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127974.012
Available formats
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