A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

ISBN-13: 9780252066306 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 424 str.

Leslie A. Schwalm

Opis

A study that deals with the courage and vigor with which African-American women fought for their freedom during and after the Civil War. Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, it offers an account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery.