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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women in American History)
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Leslie A. Schwalm
Table of Contents
"Women always did this work" : slave women and plantation labor — "Ties to bind them all together" : the social and reproductive labor of slave women — "A hard fight for we" : slave women and the Civil War — "Without mercy" : the end of war and the final destruction of lowcountry slavery — "The simple act of emancipation : the first year of freedom — "In their own way" — women and work in the postbellum South — "And so to establish family relations" : race, gender, and family in the postbellum crisis of free labor.
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ISBN: 9780252066306 Author: Schwalm, Leslie A. Publisher: University of Illinois Press Location: Urbana : Subject: History Subject: African American Studies - History Subject: Sociology, anthropology and archaeology Subject: Reconstruction Subject: United States - State & Local Subject: South carolina Subject: Slaves Subject: Women slaves Subject: Plantation life Subject: Reconstruction -- South Carolina. Subject: Afro-American women -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century. Subject: African-American women Subject: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor Subject: United States - State & Local - General Subject: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Subject: Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History. Subject: United States - 19th Century Subject: Americana-General Edition Description: Paperback Series: Women in American History Series Volume: [67-151] Publication Date: 19970731 Binding: TRADE PAPER Language: English Illustrations: Yes Pages: 424 Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 in
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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women in American History)
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1997-07-00
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9780252066306
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