Running from bondage : enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America / Karen Cook Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Karen Cook, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved women--United States--History--18th century.

Enslaved women.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved women--United States--Social conditions.

Slavery--United States--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Fugitive slaves--United States--History--18th century.

Fugitive slaves.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

Contents:

Enslaved Women's Fugitivity

"A Negro Wench Named Lucia": Enslaved Women during the Eighteenth Century

"A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret": Pre-Revolutionary Fugitive Women

"A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny": Revolutionary Black Women, 1776-1781

"A Negro Woman Called Bett": Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom in Post-Revolutionary America

Confronting the Power Structures: Marronage and Black Women's Fugitivity.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jul 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-91703-8

1-108-93461-7

1-108-91755-0

OCLC:

1259517246