Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South,9780393314816

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

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ISBN13: 9780393314816
ISBN10: 0393314812
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-02-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South '” their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.

Author Biography

Deborah Gray White is professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Revisiting Ar'n't I a Woman 1(12)
Introduction 13(14)
Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery
27(35)
The Nature of Female Slavery
62(29)
The Life Cycle of the Female Slave
91(28)
The Female Slave Network
119(23)
Men, Women, and Families
142(19)
From Slavery to Freedom
161(30)
Notes 191(34)
Selected Bibliography 225(12)
Index 237

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