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

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-382) and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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index present

non fiction

A hard fight for we

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Leslie A. Schwalm

women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina

"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