Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, Renee K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2009, 2009
Series:Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XVIII, 282 p online resource
ISBN:9780230100664