![]() ![]() May finds a complex set of practices that varied widely and illustrate conflicts at the heart of master-slave relationship.įor slaves, Christmas afforded opportunities for a few days’ reprieve from labor travel passes to visit family members and delicacies such as beef, eggnog, and gingerbread. May reaches past stereotypes to examine the history and mythology of Christmas celebrations in the slaveholding South. In Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory, Robert E. After the Civil War, they became common in nostalgic remembrances of southern plantation life. Stories of this kind first appeared in the writings of proslavery authors, who used them to illustrate slaves’ supposed contentment and the apparently superior condition of their lives as compared to wage laborers in the North. ![]() Tales of slaves feasting, singing, and dancing at Christmas on southern plantations are well-known to historians of the American South. ![]()
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