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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2009, 2009
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| Series: | Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | XVIII, 282 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230100664 |