Closer to freedom
Subtitle: enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South
By: Stephanie M.H. Camp.
Series: Gender and American culture; Gender & American culture.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Passive resistance -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Freedom of movement -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Human geography -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Southern States -- Race relations
Description: "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 M. H. 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, she extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-202) and index.