Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America

Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America / Renee K. Harrison.

Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped e...

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Main Author: Harrison, Renee K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Subjects:
Women slaves > North America > Social conditions.
Women slaves > Africa, West > Social conditions.
Women, Black > North America > Social conditions.
Slave narratives > North America > History and criticism.
Slave narratives > Africa, West > History and criticism.
Women, Black, in literature.
North America > Race relations.
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