Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations, map
ISBN:
9780252054686
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0252054687
Serie:
Women in American history
Inhalt:
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 redefining life and labor in the postbellum period
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index
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"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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0252022599
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780252022593
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0252066308
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780252066306
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- Hard fight for we Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997
Sprache:
Englisch
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