Discovering the women in slavery : emancipating perspectives on the American past / edited by Patricia Morton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morton, Patricia, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved women--United States--History.

Enslaved women.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

African American women.

History.

Women abolitionists.

United States.

Women abolitionists--United States--History.

Women--Southern States--History.

Women.

Southern States.

African American women--Southern States--History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 320 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Summary:

This is a collection of fourteen original essays on women's experiences of slavery in America, researched and written from gender-and women focused perspectives. These 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. This book is 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.

Contents:

Part One. Making a Case for Women and Slavery. Misshapen Identity: Memory, Folklore, and the Legend of Rachel Knight / Victoria E. Bynum; In Remembrance of Mira: Reflections on the Death of a Slave Woman / Carolyn J. Powell; The Civil War;s Empowerment of an Appalachian Woman: The 1864 Slave Purchases of Mary Bell / John C. Inscoe; The Mistress and Her Maids: White and Black Women in a Louisiana Household, 1858-1868 / Wilma King; The Divided Mind of Antislavery Feminism: Lydia Maria Child and the Construction of African American Womanhood / Margaret M. R. Kellow

Part Two. Worlds of Women and Slavery. Prudence Crandall, Amistad, and Other Episodes in the Dismissal of Connecticut Slave Women from American History / David Sheinin; "The Fortunes of Women in America": Spanish New Orleans's Free Women of African Descent and Their Relations with Slave Women / Kimberly S. Hanger; "If I Can't Have My Rights, I Can Have My Pleasures, And If They Won't Give Me Wages, I Can Take Them": Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould; Religion, Gender and Identity: Black Methodist Women in a Slave Society, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly; The Struggle to Achieve Individual Expression through Clothing and Adornment: African American Women under and after Slavery / Patricia K. Hunt; "At Noon, Oh How I Ran": Breastfeeding and Weaning on Plantation and Farm in Antebellum Viriginia and Alabama / Marie Jenkins Schwartz; Behind the Mask: Ex-slave Women and Interracial Sexual Relations / Hélène Lecaudey; Mistresses, Morality, and the Dilemmas of Slaveholding: The Ideology and Behavior of Elite Antebellum Women / Marli F. Weiner; The Diversity of Old South White Women: The Peculiar Worlds of German American Women / Lauren Ann Kattner.

Notes:

"Designed by Kathi L. Dailey."

"Set in Postscript Bulmer by Tseng Information systems, Inc."

"This book provides a new slavery studies collection that is specifically devoted to the placing of women in American slavery history."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

082031756X

0820317578

OCLC:

32273587