ISBN:
9781108831543
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9781108926720
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 248 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First paperback edition
DDC:
306.3/620820973
Keywords:
Women slaves / United States / History / 18th century
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Slaves / United States / Social conditions
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Women slaves / United States / Social conditions
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Slavery / United States / History / 18th century
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Fugitive slaves / United States / History / 18th century
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Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
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Sklaverei
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Emanzipation
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Frau
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United States / History / Revolution, 1775-1783 / African Americans
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United States / History / Revolution, 1775-1783 / Influence
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USA
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USA
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Sklaverei
;
Frau
;
Emanzipation
;
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
Abstract:
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty
Note:
Enslaved Women's Fugitivity -- "A Negro Wench Named Lucia": Enslaved Women during the Eighteenth Century -- "A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret": Pre-Revolutionary Fugitive Women -- "A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny": Revolutionary Black Women, 1776-1781 -- "A Negro Woman Called Bett": Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom in Post-Revolutionary America -- Confronting the Power Structures: Marronage and Black Women's Fugitivity
