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

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Love of Freedom explores how 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. Zusammenfassung Love of Freedom explores how 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Stolen from Angola 2: Conditions of Life 3: Property and Patriarchy 4: Spiritual Thirsting 5: Going Abroad and Idling Her Time 6: Possession of Her Liberty 7: Land of Liberty

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Adams, Catherine/ Pleck Adams, Elizabeth Pleck, Elizabeth H Pleck, Elizabeth H. Pleck, Pleck Elizabeth H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2010
• EAN: 9780195389098
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538909-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, C 1700 To C 1800, US Northeast, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery