emancipating perspectives on the American past
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Morton, Patricia > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Kattner, Lauren Ann
- Publish Year
- 1996
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 1996 - B
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, abolitionisme, zwarte vrouwen, witte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Bundel essays over de ervaringen van vrouwen met de slavernij in de Verenigde Staten. Niet alleen slavinnen, maar ook plantage- en slavenhoudende vrouwen en vrije zwarte vrouwen komen aan de orde. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Misshapen identity: memory, folklore, and the legend of Rachel Knight / door Victoria E. Bynum: In remembrance of Mira: reflections on the death of a slave woman / door Carolyn J. Powell: The Civil War's empowerment of an Appalachian woman : the 1864 slave purchases of Mary Bell / door John C. Inscoe: The mistress and her maids: white and black women in a Louisiana household, 1858-1868 / door Wilma King: The divided mind of antislavery feminism: Lydia Maria Child and the construction of African American womanhood / door Margaret M.R. Kellow: Prudence Crandall, Amistad, and other episodes in the dismissal of Connecticut slave women from American history / door David Sheinin: 'The fortunes of women in America': Spanish New Orleans's free women of African descent and their relations / door Kimberly S. Hanger: 'If I can't have my rights, I can have my pleasures, and if they won't give me wages, I can take them': gender and slave labor in antebellum New Orleans / door Virginia Meacham Gould: Religion, gender, and identity: black Methodist women in a slave society, 1770-1810 / door Cynthia Lynn Lyerly: The struggle to achieve individual expression through clothing and adornment: African American women under and after slavery / door Patricia K. Hunt: 'At noon, Oh how I ran': breastfeeding and weaning on plantation and farm in antebellum Virginia and Alabama / door Marie Jenkins Schwartz: Behind the mask: ex-slave women and interracial sexual relations / door Hélène Lecaudey: Mistresses, morality, and the dilemmas of slaveholding: the ideology and behavior of elite antebellum women / door Marli F. Weiner: The diversity of Old South white women: the peculiar worlds of German American Women / door Lauren Ann Kattner.