A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina /

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Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of low-country South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery, and their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of war while rede...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997.
Colección:Women in American history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1860-1870.
Enslaved women > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Plantation life > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > South Carolina.
African American women > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > South Carolina.
Femmes esclaves > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie dans les plantations > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Caroline du Sud.
Noires américaines > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American women.
Plantation life.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Enslaved women.
Sklavin
Emanzipation
Slaven (arbeid)
Vrijgelaten slaven.
Vrouwen.
Women slaves > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Slaves > Emancipation > South Carolina.
HISTORY / General
South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
South Carolina.
United States.
South Carolina
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Women always did this work" : slave women and plantation labor
  • "Ties to bind them all together" : the social and reproductive labor of slave women
  • "A hard fight for we" : slave women and the Civil War
  • "Without mercy" : the end of war and the final destruction of lowcountry slavery
  • "The simple act of emancipation : the first year of freedom
  • "In their own way"
  • women and work in the postbellum South
  • "And so to establish family relations" : race, gender, and family in the postbellum crisis of free labor.

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