Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This rich and innovative collection explores the ways in which Black women, from diverse regions of the American South, employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate one of the most tumultuous periods in American history - the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The essays included shed new light on individual narratives and case studies of women in war and freedom, revealing that Black women recognized they had to make their own freedom, and illustrating how that influenced their postwar political, social and economic lives. Black women and children are examined as self-liberators, as contributors to the family economy during the war, and as widows who relied on kinship and community solidarity. Expanding and deepening our understanding of the various ways Black women seized wartime opportunities and made powerful claims on citizenship, this volume highlights the complexity of their wartime and post-war experiences, and provides important insight into the contested spaces they occupied.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-21
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt498 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316514757

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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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.

'The powerful essays in this volume demonstrate that there was not one emancipation but many. Many factors shaped how Black women experienced freedom, and these historians bring the varying local contexts, historical forces, and individual personalities alive with rich detail and sensitivity. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the Civil War and its legacies.' Carole Emberton, Author of To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner