| Description |
x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317). |
| Contents |
Misshapen identity: memory, folklore, and the legend of Rachel Knight / Victoria E. Bynum -- In remembrance of Mira: reflections on the death of a slave woman / Carolyn J. Powell -- Civil War's empowerment of an Appalachian woman: the 1864 slave purchases of Mary Bell / John C. Inscoe -- Mistress and her maids: White and Black women in a Louisiana household, 1858-1868 / Wilma King -- Divided mind of antislavery feminism: Lydia Maria Child and the construction of African American womanhood / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- Prudence Crandall, Amistad, and other episodes in the dismissal of Connecticut slave women from American history / David Sheinin -- 'The Fortunes of women in America': Spanish New Orleans's free women of African descent and their relations with slave women / Kimberly S. Hanger --'If I can't have my rights, I can have my pleasures, and if they won't give me wages, I can take them': gender and slave labor in antebellum New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould -- Religion, gender, and identity: Black Methodist women in a slave society, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Struggle to achieve individual expression through clothing and adornment: African American women under and after slavery / Patricia K. Hunt -- 'At noon, oh how I ran': breastfeeding and weaning on plantation and farm in antebellum Virginia and Alabama / Marie Jenkins Schwartz -- Behind the mask: ex-slave women and interracial sexual relations / Hélène Lecaudey -- Mistresses, morality, and the dilemmas of slaveholding: the ideology and behavior of elite antebellum women / Marli F. Weiner -- Diversity of old south White women: the peculiar world of German American women / Lauren Ann Kattner. |
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Enslaved women -- United States -- History.
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Enslaved women. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Women abolitionists -- United States -- History.
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Women abolitionists. |
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Women -- Southern States -- History.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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African American women -- Southern States -- History.
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African American women. |
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Femmes esclaves -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
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Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
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Femmes abolitionistes -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
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Femmes -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire. |
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Noires américaines -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Morton, Patricia.
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| ISBN |
0820317578 paperback alkaline paper |
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082031756X alkaline paper |
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