Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America

by Renee K. Harrison

The historical records and stories of enslaved African women have both creative and life-affirming resistance strategies for how women of the past have dealt with and healed from violence. This book draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe the depths of multi-dimensional oppression and violence in the lives of enslaved African women. Harrison investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230618464
• ISBN13: 9780230618466
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"