Closer to Freedom
Subtitle: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807828724
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Slavery & emancipation; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; c 1800 to c 1900; Passive resistance; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 19th Century; Social Science; Social conditions; Sociology; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Slavery; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Social Science / African-American Studies; Archaeology / Anthropology; Southern States; Women slaves; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; History; Slaves
First sentence: At the heart of the process of enslavement was a spatial impulse: to locate bondpeople in plantation space and to control, indeed to determine, their movements and activities.