This Species of Property Slave Life and Culture in the Old South [Paperback]

A major work because of its unprecedented use of plantation records to augment ex-slave autobiographies and narratives...[It] establishes Leslie Howard Owens as a major historian of Afro-American slavery. --The New Republic

Provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere. --Journal of Southern History

Excellent book...[It offers] great insight into the lives of the slaves as well as providing a good demonstration of historical methodology. --Terence Roehrig, Cardinal Stritch College

A work of original scholarship presented in an accessible and 'student-friendly' style. --John Rhinehart, San Bernadino Valley College