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Author Camp, Stephanie M. H.

Title Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South / Stephanie M.H. Camp.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E443 .C36 2004    Available  ---
Description xi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-202) and index.
Contents A geography of containment: the bondage of space and time. -- I could not stay there: women, men, and truancy. -- The intoxication of pleasurable amusement: secret parties and the politics of the body. -- Amalgamation prints stuck up in her cabin: print culture, the home, and the roots of resistance. -- To get closer to freedom: gender, movement, and freedom during the Civil War.
Subject Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved women.
Southern States.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons.
Passive resistance -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Passive resistance.
History.
Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
Freedom of movement -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Freedom of movement.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Landscapes -- Social aspects.
Landscapes.
Human geography -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Human geography.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Gender roles.
ISBN 0807855340 paperback alkaline paper
0807828726 alkaline paper