Enslaved Women in America

Emily West

doi:10.5771/9781442208735

Enslaved Women in America

From Colonial Times to Emancipation

Published 2014

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doi.org/10.5771/9781442208735
ISBN print: 978-1-4422-0872-8
ISBN online: 978-1-4422-0873-5
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

West offers an overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by using a broad chronological perspective, considering themes and issues in their lives from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War. She compares the lives of enslaved women—sometimes exceptional and sometimes ordinary—across time and space with the lives of enslaved men, and with the white men and women who held them in bondage. West draws upon a wide range of evidence in evaluating enslaved women's lives and considers the major methodological issues they pose in order to build a composite, or overall, picture of enslaved womanhood through "snapshots'' of different women at various stages of their life-cycles.

Schlagworte

Women's History African American history

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i–x Preface i–x
- Contents
- Chronology
1–8 Introduction 1–8
9–22 Chapter 1. Enslaving African Women 9–22
23–40 Chapter 2. Enslaved Women in the Colonial E 23–40
41–56 Chapter 3. Enslaved Women in the Revolutionary Era and Early Republic 41–56
57–80 Chapter 4. Enslaved Women in the Antebellum South 57–80
81–96 Chapter 5. Enslaved Women in the Civil War 81–96
97–102 Epilogue 97–102
103–142 Documents 103–142
143–148 Bibliographic Essay 143–148
149–156 Index 149–156
157–158 About the Author 157–158

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