Running From Bondage : : Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
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Enslaved Women's Fugitivity -- "A Negro Wench Named Lucia": Enslaved Women during the Eighteenth Century -- "A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret": Pre-Revolutionary Fugitive Women -- "A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny": Revolutionary Black Women, 1776-1781 -- "A Negro Woman Called Bett": Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom in Post-Revolutionary America -- Confronting the Power Structures: Marronage and Black Women's Fugitivity.
"Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these "Black founding mothers" and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty"-- Provided by publisher.
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781108831543
1108831540
9781108926720
110892672X
SUBJECTS
Enslaved women -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Fugitives from slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Enslaved people -- United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- African Americans. -- Revolution, 1775-1783
United States -- Influence. -- Revolution, 1775-1783