Karen Cook Bell

Running from Bondage

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

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Produktbeschreibung

Running from Bondage examines the ways in which enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War. Exploring who these women were and what motivated them to escape, Karen Cook Bell places their compelling stories within the broader historical narratives of slave resistance and the American Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831543
• ISBN-10: 1108831540
• Artikelnr.: 60940933

Autorenporträt

Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. She specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women's history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Enslaved women's fugitivity
1. 'A negro wench named Lucia': Enslaved women during the eighteenth century
2. 'A mulatto woman named Margaret': Pre-Revolutionary fugitive women
3. 'A well-dressed woman named Jenny': Revolutionary Black women, 1776-1781
4. 'A negro woman called Bett': Overcoming obstacles to freedom in Post-Revolutionary America
5. Confronting the power structures: Marronage and Black women's fugitivity
Conclusion.