Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Herausgeber: Cook Bell, Karen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines how Black women across the American South employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate the tumultuous Civil War and Reconstruction era. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in African American history, gender studies, and the Civil War and Reconstruction era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781009087452
• ISBN-10: 1009087452
• Artikelnr.: 69030215

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: black women during the civil war and reconstruction Karen
Cook Bell; Part I. Emancipation and Black Women's Labor: 1. 'The proceeds
of my own labor': black working women in the district of Columbia during
the civil war Katherine Chilton; 2. 'Please attend to it for me': single
black women in civil war and reconstruction era Virginia Arlisha R.
Norwood; 3. 'I had time for myself': enslaved women, labor, and the
politics of acquisition during the civil war Felicia Jamison; Part II. War,
Gender Violence, and the Courts: 4. Black women, war, and freedom in
Southern Louisiana and Low Country Georgia Karen Cook Bell; 5. Rape and
mutiny at Fort Jackson: black laundresses testify in civil war Louisiana
Crystal Feimster; 6. 'I told him to let me alone, that he hurt me': black
women and girls and the battle over labor and sexual consent in
union-occupied territory Kaisha Esty; Part III. Emancipation, the Black
Family, and Education: 7. Making their place on the South's ragged edge:
USCT women in Little Rock Kelly Houston Jones; 8. Black women's lives and
labors in post-emancipation North Carolina Brandi C. Brimmer; 9. 'Remaking
Old Blue College': Emerson Normal and addressing the need for public
schoolteachers in Mobile Hilary Green.