Herbert Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (1976) showed that slave families, while often broken up when members were sold or assigned to different plantations, were remarkably monogamous and stable.
Gutman's work showed that slave families were very stable.
Gutman's work talked about how dysfunctional slave families were.
Some unusual place names are the result of Viking influences.
Anxious in Austin signing off.
A baseball player in a red jersey throwing a ball at the pitchers mound
My husband takes little red oaks with him when he visits East Texas.
Two old women hitting each other with burlap sacks.
The child is clean.