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Author Camp, Stephanie M. H., author.

Title Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South / Stephanie M.H. Camp
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 206 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
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
Summary Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-202) and index
Notes English
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 6, 2021)
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2005
Subject Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Passive resistance -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Freedom of movement -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Human geography -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Freedom of movement
Human geography
Landscapes -- Social aspects
Passive resistance
Plantation life
Race relations
Sex role
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Enslaved women -- Social conditions
Sklavin
Schwarze Frau
Plantage
Widerstand
Plantages.
Slaven (arbeid)
Vrouwen.
Verzet.
Femmes esclaves -- États-Unis (sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle.
Vie dans les plantations -- États-Unis (sud) -- 19e siècle.
Esclaves -- États-Unis (sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle.
Résistance passive -- États-Unis (sud) -- 19e siècle.
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
États-Unis (sud) -- Relations interethniques.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003024975
ISBN 9780807875766
0807875767