Chained to the Rock of Adversity - To be Free, Black and Female in the Old South (Paperback, New)

Chained to the Rock of Adversity offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story. The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of prominent Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, and her daughter Anna, while Ann's daughter Catharine wrote the diary. A freed slave herself, Ann Johnson became the head of her family and a slaveholder before the Civil War. Her days were filled with the often tedious and sometimes overwhelming duties assigned to slaveholding women, but her race separated her from most other women of this class. The writings depict a tight-knit network of family and friends and show a family well aware of its precarious position in society, feared by most whites and resented by other blacks. Editor Virginia Meacham Gould provides an extensive introduction, a cast of characters, identifying notes, and a brief afterword tracing the Johnson family to the present day.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries & Writings
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	September 1998
Editors:	Virginia Meacham Gould
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2083-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8203-2083-8
Barcode:	9780820320830

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