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Southern Black women and their struggle for freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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"This volume examines how Black women across the American South employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate the tumultuous Civil War and Reconstruction era. It will app...
"This volume examines how Black women across the American South employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate the tumultuous Civil War and Reconstruction era. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in African American history, gender studies, and the Civil War and Reconstruction era"--
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- Creator
- edited by Karen Cook Bell, Bowie State University
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- xv, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781316514757, 1316514757, 9781009087452, 1009087452, 9781009090803
- OCLC
- on1396560922
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "The proceeds of my own labor" : Black working women in the District of Columbia during the Civil War / Katherine Chilton -- "Please attend to it for me" : Single Black women in Civil War and Reconstruction Era Virginia / Arlisha R. Norwood -- "I had time for myself" : Enslaved women, labor, and the politics of acquisition during the Civil War / Felicia Jamison -- Black women, war, and freedom in Southern Louisiana and Low Country Georgia / Karen Cook Bell -- Rape and mutiny at Fort Jackson : Black laundresses testify in Civil War Louisiana / Crystal Feimster -- "I told him to let me alone, that he hurt me" : Black women and girls and the battle over labor and sexual consent in Union-occupied territory / Kaisha Esty -- Making their place on the South's ragged edge : USCT women and place in Little Rock, Arkansas / Kelly Houston Jones -- Black women's lives and labors in post-emancipation North Carolina / Brandi C. Brimmer -- Remaking Old Blue College : Emerson Normal and addressing the need for public schoolteachers in Mobile, Alabama / Hilary Green
Subjects
- African American women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- African American women -- Employment -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Social aspects.
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.