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"This volume examines how Black women across the American South employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate the tumultuous Civil War and Reconstruction era. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in African American history, gender studies, and the Civil War and Reconstruction era"--
List of contents
Introduction: black women during the civil war and reconstruction Karen Cook Bell; Part I. Emancipation and Black Women's Labor: 1. 'The proceeds of my own labor': black working women in the district of Columbia during the civil war Katherine Chilton; 2. 'Please attend to it for me': single black women in civil war and reconstruction era Virginia Arlisha R. Norwood; 3. 'I had time for myself': enslaved women, labor, and the politics of acquisition during the civil war Felicia Jamison; Part II. War, Gender Violence, and the Courts: 4. Black women, war, and freedom in Southern Louisiana and Low Country Georgia Karen Cook Bell; 5. Rape and mutiny at Fort Jackson: black laundresses testify in civil war Louisiana Crystal Feimster; 6. 'I told him to let me alone, that he hurt me': black women and girls and the battle over labor and sexual consent in union-occupied territory Kaisha Esty; Part III. Emancipation, the Black Family, and Education: 7. Making their place on the South's ragged edge: USCT women in Little Rock Kelly Houston Jones; 8. Black women's lives and labors in post-emancipation North Carolina Brandi C. Brimmer; 9. 'Remaking Old Blue College': Emerson Normal and addressing the need for public schoolteachers in Mobile Hilary Green.
About the author
Karen Cook Bell is Professor of History and the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor at Bowie State University. Her book Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America won the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society International Book Award in 2022.
