Karen Cook Bell

Running from Bondage (eBook, PDF)

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108934619
• Artikelnr.: 70914250

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.