Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

ISBN-13: 9780195389081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 280 str.

Catherine Adams; Elizabeth Pleck

Opis

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.

Hidden behind the banner of achieving freedom was the assumption that freedom meant affirming black manhood The struggle for freedom in New England was different for men than for women. Black men in colonial and revolutionary New England were struggling for freedom from slavery and for the right to patriarchal control of their own families. Women had more complicated desires, seeking protection and support in a male headed household while also wanting personal liberty. Eventually women who were former slaves began to fight for dignity and respect for womanhood and access to schooling for black children.

Recenzje

Accessible, lively, and well-researched .By creatively blending legal and literary analysis, Adams and Pleck document how race and gender informed the meaning of freedom in complex and often contradictory ways .With its short, smart, and readable chapters, Love of Freedom would be an excellent addition to an undergraduate survey of African Americans or women A graceful, expansive, and imaginative work.

O autorze

Catherine Adams is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo. Elizabeth H. Pleck is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.