Books written by Betty Wood
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Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820
Scott , ed . , Journal of a Residence , 60 . 27. F. G. Bailey , “ Gifts and Poison , " in Gifts and Poison : The Politics of Reputation , ed . F. G. Bailey ( Oxford , 1971 ) , 2 . 28. Scott , ed . , Journal of a Residence , 156 . 29.
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Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
Evans and his congregation had leased the land upon which they built their chapel “for seven years” and “met the expenses themselves, except five dollars, which was given to them by a white man.”42 In 1789 the biracial Baptist ...
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Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619–1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies.
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The Healing Power of Color: Using Color to Improve Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Well-Being
tinguishing colors , as in early Aryan cultures . At other times certain colors have been reserved for specific trades and professions , as today in law , religion , and the armed forces . Faculties at universities and colleges have ...
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Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times
The stories of the women portrayed in this volume provide valuable glimpses into the lives and experiences of all Georgia women during the first century and a half of the state's existence.
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From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World
This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa.
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Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times
Quoted in Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma”Rainey, Bessie Smith, ... Michelle R. Scott, Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ...
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Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia
In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law.
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Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776
Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional social and economic forces that affected the growth of slavery in early America.
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From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World
... volume. The Louisiana experience can also be examined in the context of other post-emancipation societies. For some ... 1866; and Hqtrs BRFAL, State of Louisiana, Inspection Report for Jan., Feb., March, 1866, both in M1027, Reel 28. 10 ...
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The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
In this important new analysis, Wood begins by exploring the meanings of freedom and bondage in sixteenth-century English thought and the ideas that men and women of Tudor England had about Africans and native Americans.
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Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775
The second half of the book examines the development of slavery in Georgia during the quarter century before the Revolution, with special attention on the experience of black slaves in late colonial Georgia.
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Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times
The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures such as Pulitzer Prize ...