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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

作者 Stephanie M. H. Camp
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South:Recentscholarshiponslaveryhasexploredthelivesofenslavedpeoplebeyondthewatchfu

內容簡介

內容簡介 Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition.Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas. Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts.The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Stephanie M. H. Camp (1968-2014) was associate professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle.

商品規格

書名 / Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
作者 / Stephanie M. H. Camp
簡介 / Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South:Recentscholarshiponslaveryhasexploredthelivesofenslavedpeoplebeyondthewatchfu
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9780807855348
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9780807855348
誠品26碼 /
重量(g) / 331.1
尺寸 / 22.9X15.8X1.7CM
裝訂 / P:平裝
頁數 / 224
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Focusing on female slaves' everyday forms of resistanceQsuch as truancy, theft, and illegal partiesQCamp argues that the Civil War years saw a revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades, as slaves broke rules, spoke their minds, and ran away.

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Focusing on female slaves' everyday forms of resistanceQsuch as truancy, theft, and illegal partiesQCamp argues that the Civil War years saw a revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades, as slaves broke rules, spoke their minds, and ran away.

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