The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

Author/Contributor(s):	Wells-Oghoghomeh, Alexis
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	09/14/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery.