| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. By Daina Ramey Berry. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii, 224 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03146-5.)

Our understanding of the complex history of slavery has been greatly enhanced in recent years by a wealth of new scholarship. Daina Ramey Berry's study of the lives of those enslaved in Georgia during the early nineteenth century adds an important dimension to that understanding. One particular strength of this study is the contrast the author presents in discussing slavery by region—up-country versus low country. Regional variations determined not only which crops were produced but also the size of the slave population on plantations and farms in those distinct locales. Work routines and interpersonal relations were also affected. As she moves through discussions of skill and gender, agricultural and non-agricultural labor, family and community, Berry distinguishes between the two diverse regions and reinforces our understanding that the experiences of the enslaved were quite varied.

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