Discovering the Women in Slavery

Author/Contributor(s):	Morton, Patricia
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	01/01/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A collection of fourteen original essays on women's experiences of slavery in America, researched and written from gender- and women-focused perspectives. The essays discuss not only slave women, but also plantation and slaveholding mistresses and free women of color in contexts ranging from the colonial era to the Civil War South.