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The Resource A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina, Leslie A. Schwalm

A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina, Leslie A. Schwalm

Work
Publication
Extent
xiii, 394 p., [8] p. of plates
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
Isbn
9780252022593
Instance
Label
A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina
Title
A hard fight for we
Title remainder
women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina
Statement of responsibility
Leslie A. Schwalm
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1956-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Schwalm, Leslie A.
Dewey number
975.7/00496
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
E445.S7
LC item number
S39 1997
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Women in American history
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Women slaves
  • Plantation life
  • Slaves
  • African American women
  • South Carolina
  • Reconstruction
Label
A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina, Leslie A. Schwalm
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-382) and index
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
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiii, 394 p., [8] p. of plates
Isbn
9780252022593
Isbn Type
(acid-free paper)
Lccn
96045866
Other physical details
ill., map
System control number
(Sirsi) ABU-3202
Label
A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina, Leslie A. Schwalm
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-382) and index
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
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiii, 394 p., [8] p. of plates
Isbn
9780252022593
Isbn Type
(acid-free paper)
Lccn
96045866
Other physical details
ill., map
System control number
(Sirsi) ABU-3202

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