Title: A hard fight for we
First published: 1997
Description: Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of low-country South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery, and their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of war while redefining life and labor in the postbellum period.
Subjects: African American women, Women slaves, Plantation life, Slaves, Emancipation, History, South Carolina Civil War, 1861-1865, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slaves, emancipation, united states, Slavery, united states, history, South carolina, history, Enslaved persons, emancipation, united states
Places: South Carolina
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E445.S7 S39 1997