Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America

by 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 enslaved women combat violence and oppression.

• 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"