We are your sisters : black women in the nineteenth century / edited by Dorothy Sterling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1984.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 535 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393017281
  • 9780393017281
  • 0393302520
  • 9780393302523
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Slavery time -- Childhood -- Work -- Seduction, rape, concubinage -- Courtship and family life -- Letters from slave women -- Resistance -- Resettlement -- Part II: Free women, 1800-1861 -- First freedom, 1800-1831 -- Daughters of Africa/Daughters of America -- The antislavery ladies -- Women with a special mission -- Teachers and pupils -- Black women and the impending crisis -- Part III: The war years -- Slavery chain done broke at last -- View from the North -- The schoolmarms -- Part IV: Freedwomen -- New beginnings -- Slavery made us tough -- White folks still on top -- Washerwoman, maumas, exodusters, jubileers -- Part V: The postwar North -- Some old acquaintances -- Representative women and a new generation -- Part VI: Epilogue: Four women.
Summary: Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.
List(s) this item appears in: Black Women and Children Reference | Frances E. W. Harper (1825 - 1911)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-503) and index.

Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.

Introduction -- Part I: Slavery time -- Childhood -- Work -- Seduction, rape, concubinage -- Courtship and family life -- Letters from slave women -- Resistance -- Resettlement -- Part II: Free women, 1800-1861 -- First freedom, 1800-1831 -- Daughters of Africa/Daughters of America -- The antislavery ladies -- Women with a special mission -- Teachers and pupils -- Black women and the impending crisis -- Part III: The war years -- Slavery chain done broke at last -- View from the North -- The schoolmarms -- Part IV: Freedwomen -- New beginnings -- Slavery made us tough -- White folks still on top -- Washerwoman, maumas, exodusters, jubileers -- Part V: The postwar North -- Some old acquaintances -- Representative women and a new generation -- Part VI: Epilogue: Four women.

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