Americans and Their Servants
Author | : Daniel E. Sutherland |
Publisher | : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Women domestics |
ISBN | : 9780807108604 |
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Author | : Daniel E. Sutherland |
Publisher | : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Women domestics |
ISBN | : 9780807108604 |
Author | : Daniel E. Sutherland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Household employees |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Katherine Van Wormer |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807149705 |
The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people -- both white and black -- these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about resilience and resistance in the face of oppression in the Jim Crow South. The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their experiences in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. Their perspectives as servants who left for better opportunities outside of the South offer an original telling of physical and psychological survival in a racially oppressive caste system: Vinella Byrd, for instance, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, recalls how a farmer she worked for would not allow her to clean her hands in the family's wash pan. These narratives are complemented by the voices of white women, such as Flora Templeton Stuart, from New Orleans, who remembers her maid fondly but realizes that she knew little about her life. Like Stuart, many of the white narrators remain troubled by the racial norms of the time. Viewed as a whole, the book presents varied, rich, and detailed accounts, often tragic, and sometimes humorous. The Maid Narratives reveals, across racial lines, shared hardships, strong emotional ties, and inspiring strength.
Author | : Robert Roberts |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780765601148 |
An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book "The House Servants Directory", the identity and character of the author, and its significance in American history.
Author | : Phyllis Palmer |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1439905541 |
Examining the cultual norms of women after Suffrage to define labor based on color.
Author | : Aife Murray |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781584656746 |
A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson
Author | : Sylviane A. Diouf |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1998-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081471904X |
Explores the stories of African Muslim slaves in the New World. The author argues that although Islam as brought by the Africans did not outlive the last slaves, "what they wrote on the sands of the plantations is a successful story of strength, resilience, courage, pride, and dignity." She discusses Christian Europeans, African Muslims, the Atlantic slave trade, literacy, revolts, and the Muslim legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Russell M. Lawson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440841802 |
The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the northern, middle, and southern British American colonies as well as British Caribbean colonies. Thousands of people arrived in the British-American colonies as indentured servants, transported felons, and kidnapped children forced into bound labor. Others already in America, such as Indians, freedmen, and poor whites, placed themselves into the service of others for food, clothing, shelter, and security; poverty in colonial America was relentless, and servitude was the voluntary and involuntary means by which the poor adapted, or tried to adapt, to miserable conditions. From the 1600s to the 1700s, Blacks, Indians, Europeans, Englishmen, children, and adults alike were indentured, apprenticed, transported as felons, kidnapped, or served as redemptioners. Though servitude was more multiracial and multicultural than slavery, involving people from numerous racial and ethnic backgrounds, far fewer books have been written about it. This fascinating new study of servitude in colonial America provides the first complete overview of the varied lives of the dispossessed in 17th- and 18th-century America, examining colonial American servitude in all of its forms.
Author | : Don Jordan |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814742963 |
White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide "breeders" for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.
Author | : Janet Nolan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
An account of the role that Irish American female educators played in Irish assimilation and social mobility in the United States.