Ar'n't I a Woman? : Female Slaves in the Plantation South,9780393314816

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Ar'n't I a Woman? : Female Slaves in the Plantation South

by WHITE,DEBORAH GRAY

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9780393314816

ISBN10:

0393314812

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Trade Paper

Pub. Date:

2/17/1999

Publisher(s):

W W NORTON

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Summary

Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South '” their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.

Author Biography

Deborah Gray White is professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University.

Acknowledgments

Revisiting Ar'n't I a Woman

(12)

Introduction

(14)

Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery

(35)

The Nature of Female Slavery

(29)

The Life Cycle of the Female Slave

(28)

The Female Slave Network

119

(23)

Men, Women, and Families

142

(19)

From Slavery to Freedom

161

(30)

Notes

191

(34)

Selected Bibliography

225