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Discovering the Women in Slavery - Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past (Paperback, New)
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Discovering the Women in Slavery - Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past (Paperback, New)
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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
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. The collection is structured in two
sections that demonstrate, through complementary approaches, how
the diverse and intersecting worlds of women and slavery can be
discovered. The first section comprises pioneering individual case
studies. One essay, for example, uses racist sources to shed light
on a former slave woman's major contribution to the South's
internal rebellions against the Confederacy. Another discusses a
mistress who, by her own initiative, first became a slave owner
while her husband was at war. In the second section, which presents
group studies, one finds equally pathbreaking explorations of such
topics as the religious experience and culture of early slave women
and also the clothing and self-adornment of enslaved and free
African American women as material culture artifacts and evidence.
All of the essays in the collection point to additional sources for
study and research. Reconstructing the histories of women who
struggled to shape their own lives and who, in the context of
slavery and its legacies, often struggled tragically against each
other, this collection richly contributes to the humanization of
America's slavery past.
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