| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 318 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Law, custom, and tradition -- Work and daily life -- Building community -- Resisting slavery -- The meaning of freedom |
| Summary |
Women and Slavery offers readers an opportunity to examine the establishment, growth, and evolution of slavery in the United States as it impacted women-enslaved and free, African American and white, wealthy and poor, northern and southern. The primary documents-including newspaper articles, broadsides, cartoons, pamphlets, speeches, photographs, memoirs, and editorials-are organized thematically and represent cultural, political, religious, economic, and social perspectives on this dark and complex period in American history. --From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African American women -- Southern States -- History -- Sources
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources
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Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- Sources
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Women -- Southern States -- History -- Sources
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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African American women
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Slavery
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Women
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Enslaved women
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Sklavin
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Schwarze Frau
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Southern States
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United States
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Catherine M., editor.
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Lewis, J. Richard, 1967- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781610754774 |
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1610754778 |
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