Running from bondage : enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America /
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 resis...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.