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Ar'n't I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Ar'n't I A Woman Female Slaves in the Plantation South Author:Deborah White Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. Ar'n't I a Woman? updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understand... more »ing the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South-their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.« less
This author gives a clear account of what a slave woman's life was like from the journey from Africa to The US and beyond. The book distinguishes between truth and fiction.