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9780393316292

We Are Your Sisters Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393316292

  • ISBN10:

    0393316297

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-07-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

"A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free."--Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

Table of Contents

Foreword ix(4)
Mary Helen Washington
Introduction xiii
Part I SLAVERY TIME 1(84)
1. Childhood
5(8)
2. Work
13(5)
3. Seduction, Rape, Concubinage
18(13)
4. Courtship and Family Life
31(13)
5. Letters from Slave Women
44(12)
6. Resistance
56(13)
7. Resettlement
69(16)
Part II FREE WOMEN, 1800-1861 85(150)
8. First Freedom, 1800-1831
87(17)
9. Daughters of Africa/Daughters of America
104(15)
10. The Antislavery Ladies
119(31)
11. Women with a Special Mission
150(30)
12. Teachers and Pupils
180(33)
13. Black Women and the Impending Crisis
213(22)
Part III THE WAR YEARS 235(72)
14. Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last
237(8)
15. View from the North
245(16)
16. The Schoolmarms
261(46)
Part IV FREEDWOMEN 307(88)
17. New Beginnings
309(22)
18. Slavery Made Us Tough
331(13)
19. White Folks Still on Top
344(11)
20. Washerwomen, Maumas, Exodusters, Jubileers
355(40)
Part V THE POSTWAR NORTH 395(56)
21. Some Old Acquaintances
397(21)
22. Representative Women and a New Generation
418(33)
Part VI EPILOGUE: FOUR WOMEN 451(48)
Selected Bibliography 499(5)
Source Notes 504(11)
Acknowledgments 515(4)
Index 519

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