heroines of the slavery era
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schwarz-Bart, Simone
- Creator
- Schwarz-Bart, André
- Creator
- Réjouis, Rose-Myriam > (transl.)
- Creator
- Daval, Stephanie > (transl.)
- Creator
- Vinokurov, Val > (transl.)
- Creator
- Dodson, Howard > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- C1126 rode stip - C
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, zwarte vrouwen, Afrika, Verenigde Staten, Latijns-Amerika, Caraïbisch gebied, Suriname, diaspora, biografie
- Description
- Heroines of the slavery era weaves together oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and personal writings from North and South America and the Caribbean from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. These women of the slavery era include Aqualtune, a princess from Congo enslaved in Brazil, who led an arrmy of ten thousand warriors in the Battle of Mbwila: Anastasia, an African slave in Brazil, who today is considered the patron saint of Brazil's blacks: Solitude, a slave in the French West Indies, Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston: Harriet Tubman, heroine of the Underground Railroad, who helped hundreds of other slaves escape to freedom in the United States and Canada: Ellen Craft, a slave who successfully escaped to Philadelphia with her husband: Sojourner Truth, famed orator on behalf of the rights of women and the abolition of slavery: Amy Spain, Susie King Taylor, Margaret Garner, Dandarah, Paanza, Nanny and Zabeth.