Discovering the women in slavery : emancipating perspectives on the American past

The Resource Discovering the women in slavery : emancipating perspectives on the American past

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Discovering the women in slavery : emancipating perspectives on the American past

Title remainder

emancipating perspectives on the American past

Statement of responsibility

edited by Patricia Morton

Language

eng

Summary

Discovering the Women in Slavery is a collection of fourteen original essays on women's experiences of slavery in America, researched and written from gender- and women-focused perspectives. The essays discuss not only slave women but also plantation and slaveholding mistresses and free women of color, in contexts ranging from the colonial era to the Civil War South. Intended for a wide readership, this book is especially designed to bring attention to the new questions and findings about American slavery that are engendered by today's exploration of the experience and roles of the women generally left invisible, stereotyped, or both, by conventional American slavery history
As Patricia Morton notes in her historiographical introduction, Discovering the Women in Slavery continues the advances made, especially over the last decade, in understanding how women experienced slavery and shaped slavery history. In addition, the collection illuminates some emancipating new perspectives and methodologies. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention - over time and place - to variations, differences, and diversity regarding issues of gender and sex, race and ethnicity, and class. They draw on such qualitative sources as letters, novels, oral histories, court records, and local histories as well as quantitative sources like census data and parish records

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

975/.00496073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

E443

LC item number

.D57 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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