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"With Strategies for Survival William Dusinberre solidifies his reputation as one of our finest historians of southern slavery. His unusually sensitive reading of interviews with Virginia's ex-slaves returns us to basic questions, but offers startling fresh answers. Like his classic study of slavery on the rice plantations, Strategies for Survival will quickly become a must-read for all students of antebellum American history."" —James Oakes, author of Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South""This remarkable study of antebellum Virginia slavery displays all the qualities we have come to expect from William Dusinberre— impeccable research, creative questioning, elegant writing, and persuasive interpretations. This is a major contribution from a major historian."" —Charles Joyner, author of Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community"

Strategies for Survival may even serve as a template for other historians working with similarly complicated and scant sources. --author of Virginia Quarterly Review [Dusinberre] presents a nuanced portrait of slavery in antebellum Virginia... Strategies for Survival provides a thorough introduction to the Virginia WPA interviews and a classic and careful engagement with the words of former slaves, crafted by an expert historian. --author of Journal of the Early Republic An expert and comprehensive examination of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) interviews with Virginia ex-slaves, conducted almost if not entirely by African American workers.... This volume has more pain between its covers than some much longer works. All Virginians should read it. --author of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography An outstanding volume that should appeal to scholars and students of slavery alike.... A wide-ranging yet finely drawn picture of both the grim realities African Americans confronted and the coping tactics they used to survive day to day.... [This] intelligent and engaging book certainly helps us understand the everyday realities of antebellum slavery. --author of The Journal of Southern History Presents a full portrait of the experience of bondage. While the limits placed on slaves' ability to fashion tolerable lives for themselves is often dispiriting, stories illustrating the spirit and ingenuity with which they attempted to surmount these obstacles make compelling reading. --author of Civil War Book Review This remarkable study of antebellum Virginia slavery displays all the qualities we have come to expect from William Dusinberre-- impeccable research, creative questioning, elegant writing, and persuasive interpretations. This is a major contribution from a major historian. --Charles Joyner, author of Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community With Strategies for Survival William Dusinberre solidifies his reputation as one of our finest historians of southern slavery. His unusually sensitive reading of interviews with Virginia's ex-slaves returns us to basic questions, but offers startling fresh answers. Like his classic study of slavery on the rice plantations, Strategies for Survival will quickly become a must-read for all students of antebellum American history. --James Oakes, author of Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

With Strategies for Survival William Dusinberre solidifies his reputation as one of our finest historians of southern slavery. His unusually sensitive reading of interviews with Virginia's ex-slaves returns us to basic questions, but offers startling fresh answers. Like his classic study of slavery on the rice plantations, Strategies for Survival will quickly become a must-read for all students of antebellum American history."" —James Oakes, author of Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South""This remarkable study of antebellum Virginia slavery displays all the qualities we have come to expect from William Dusinberre— impeccable research, creative questioning, elegant writing, and persuasive interpretations. This is a major contribution from a major historian."" —Charles Joyner, author of Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community

This remarkable study of antebellum Virginia slavery displays all the qualities we have come to expect from William Dusinberre-- impeccable research, creative questioning, elegant writing, and persuasive interpretations. This is a major contribution from a major historian. --Charles Joyner, author of Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community With Strategies for Survival William Dusinberre solidifies his reputation as one of our finest historians of southern slavery. His unusually sensitive reading of interviews with Virginia's ex-slaves returns us to basic questions, but offers startling fresh answers. Like his classic study of slavery on the rice plantations, Strategies for Survival will quickly become a must-read for all students of antebellum American history. --James Oakes, author of Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

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William Dusinberre, Reader in History, Emeritus, at the University of Warwick in England, is the author of Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk, Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure (Virginia) and the award-winning Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps.

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