| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Emily West. Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. x, 184. $30.00.

Since the 1970s, students of slavery have uncovered much about slave life that had been previously hidden from general view. We have learned about the slaves' multigenerational families, about their deep faith and well-organized religious systems, and about their work and entrepreneurial activities. While the responses of Africans and African Americans to enslavement reveal a level of cultural resilience previously unknown, discussions about the damaging effects of slavery on black family continue. Concern is focused primarily on the present and future health of a black families characterized by relatively low rates of marriage and growing numbers of children born into single-parent, female-headed households. Whether we like it or not, as students of slavery, to some extent we are all engaged in a debate with those who link the problems faced by sections of the black community today with the lingering effects of American slavery.

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