Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past
- ISBN-10
- 0820317578
- ISBN-13
- 9780820317571
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-01-01
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Author
- Patricia Morton
Description
As Patricia Morton notes in her historiographical introduction, Discovering the Women in Slavery continues the advances made, especially over the last decade, in understanding how women experienced slavery and shaped slavery history. In addition, the collection illuminates some emancipating new perspectives and methodologies. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention - over time and place - to variations, differences, and diversity regarding issues of gender and sex, race and ethnicity, and class. They draw on such qualitative sources as letters, novels, oral histories, court records, and local histories as well as quantitative sources like census data and parish records
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