Enslaved Women And The Art Of Resistance In Antebellum America
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Author | : R. Harrison |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 023010066X |
Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.
Author | : Karen Cook Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108831540 |
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author | : Sharla M. Fett |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780807853788 |
Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.
Author | : Keri Leigh Merritt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110718424X |
This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.
Author | : Mary E. Frederickson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252095162 |
Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example--the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved andthe opera Margaret Garner--as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States. Contributors are Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, Mary E. Frederickson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Carolyn Mazloomi, Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Catherine Roma, Huda Seif, S. Pearl Sharp, Raquel Luciana de Souza, Jolene Smith, Veta Tucker, Delores M. Walters, Diana Williams, and Kristine Yohe.
Author | : Marisa J. Fuentes |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812248228 |
Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.
Author | : Manisha Sinha |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 2016-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300182082 |
“Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. “A full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”—Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning new history of abolitionism . . . [Sinha] plugs abolitionism back into the history of anticapitalist protest.”—The Atlantic “Will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”—The Wall Street Journal “A powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States . . . as multifaceted as the movement it chronicles.”—The Boston Globe
Author | : Yolanda Nicole Pierce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813028064 |
Examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, Yolanda Pierce argues that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed "personal transformations with far-reaching community effects.
Author | : Deborah Gray White |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Plantation life |
ISBN | : 9780393304060 |
Exploration of the assumed roles within families and the community and the burdens placed on slave women.
Author | : Sasha Turner |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2017-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081229405X |
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.