Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century LouisianaSweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive research, is both a statistical study over time of 155 slave communities in twenty six Louisiana