Enslaved women in America : an encyclopedia / Daina Ramey Berry, editor in chief, with Deleso A. Alford, senior editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Daina Ramey, editor.

Alford, Deleso A., editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women slaves--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Women slaves.

Slavery--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 364 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides a comprehensive examination of the role of enslaved women in United States history Includes contributions from some of the top scholars in the field Contains the most current and up-to-date research on enslaved women in the United States Addresses current historical debates on a variety of topics referencing slavery

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Alphabetical List of Entries""; ""Topical List of Entries""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chronology of Enslaved Women in America""; ""The Encyclopedia""; ""A""; ""Abolitionism""; ""Abortion""; ""Abroad Marriage""; ""African Women and African-born Women""; ""American Revolution""; ""B""; ""Bondwoman (Bondwomen, Bondman, Bondmen, Bondpeople)""; ""Branding""; ""Breeding""; ""Burial Customs""; ""C""; ""Celia""; ""Childbirth""; ""Childcare""; ""Civil War""; ""Clothing""; ""Community""; ""Concubinage""; ""Conflict, Intraracial""; ""Conjurers""

""Contraception""""Courtship""; ""Craft, Ellen""; ""Creoles""; ""D""; ""Death""; ""Decorative Arts""; ""Delaney, Lucy A.""; ""Dickson, Amanda America""; ""Diet and Nutrition""; ""Domestic Slave Trade""; ""E""; ""Economy""; ""Education""; ""Elderly Women""; ""Emancipation""; ""F""; ""Family""; ""Fancy Girls""; ""Female Slave Network""; ""Folk Medicine and Healing""; ""Folklore and Folktales""; ""Food Preparation and Cooking""; ""Free Women""; ""Freeman, Elizabeth""; ""French America""; ""G""; ""Gardening""; ""Garner, Margaret""; ""Gender Conventions""; ""Girlhood""; ""Gullah Culture""; ""H""

""Hair and Headdresses""""Health, Disabilities, and Soundness""; ""Hemings, Sally""; ""Hiring Out""; ""Historiography""; ""I""; ""Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl""; ""Infant Mortality""; ""Infanticide""; ""Islam""; ""J""; ""Jacobs, Harriet""; ""Jezebel Stereotype""; ""K""; ""Keckley, Elizabeth""; ""Key, Elizabeth""; ""L""; ""Labor, Agricultural""; ""Labor, Nonagricultural""; ""Labor, Skilled""; ""Laney, Lucy Craft""; ""Laws""; ""Life Cycle""; ""Literacy""; ""M""; ""Mammy Stereotype""; ""Manumission""; ""Maroon Communities""; ""Marriage, Abroad""; ""Marriage and Cohabitation""

""Medical Experimentation and Surgery""""Middle Passage""; ""Midwives""; ""Miscegenation""; ""Mobility""; ""Mortality and Life Expectancy""; ""Motherhood""; ""N""; ""Naming""; ""Narratives""; ""North, The""; ""O""; ""Overseers""; ""Owners""; ""P""; ""Plantation Mistresses""; ""Pregnancy""; ""Prices""; ""Prince, Lucy Terry""; ""Punishment""; ""Q""; ""Quilting""; ""R""; ""Religion""; ""Representations""; ""Resistance""; ""Runaways""; ""S""; ""Sale and Separation of Enslaved People""; ""Scott, Harriet Robinson""; ""Seamstress Work""; ""Sexuality""; ""Slave Quarters, Life in""

""Slaveholders, Free Black Women""""South, The""; ""T""; ""Taboos and Superstitions""; ""Taylor, Susie King""; ""Thomas, Sally""; ""Tituba""; ""Truancy""; ""Truth, Sojourner""; ""Tubman, Harriet""; ""U""; ""Underground Railroad""; ""Urban Slavery""; ""V""; ""Violence, Domestic""; ""Violence, Racial""; ""Violence, Sexual""; ""Voodoo""; ""W""; ""“Wench Betty,� Murder of""; ""West, The""; ""Wet Nursing""; ""Wheatley, Phillis""; ""Appendix: Population of Enslaved Women, 1750�1860""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""

""E""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357).

ISBN:

9798216080077

9781785394065

1785394061

OCLC:

828682007