Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

by Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck

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They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.

Hidden behind the banner of achieving freedom...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195389085

ISBN13:9780195389081

Release Date:February 2010

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American Studies Discrimination & Racism History Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Women in History

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