Enslaved women in America : from colonial times to Emancipation /

More than a century after Emancipation, no comprehensive overview of the history of the female American slave exists. In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their stories within the broader context of slavery in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, Emily, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Series:African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Enslaving African women
  • Enslaved women in the colonial era
  • Enslaved women in the Revolutionary era and early Republic
  • Enslaved women in the antebellum South
  • Enslaved women in the Civil War
  • Epilogue
  • Documents.