Enslaved women in America [electronic resource] : an encyclopedia / Daina Ramey Berry, editor in chief, with Deleso A. Alford, senior editor
- Published:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 365 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators:
- Berry, Daina Ramey and Alford, Deleso A.
Access Online
- Contents:
- Abolitionism -- Abortion -- African women and African-born women -- American revolution -- Bondwoman (bondwomen, bondman, bondmen, bondpeople) -- Branding -- Breeding -- Burial customs -- Celia -- Childbirth -- Childcare -- Civil war -- Clothing -- Community -- Concubinage -- Conflict, intraracial -- Conjurers -- Contraception -- Courtship -- Ellen Craft -- Creoles -- Decorative arts -- Lucy A. Delaney -- Amanda America Dickson -- Diet and nutrition -- Domestic slave trade -- Economy -- Education -- Elderly women -- Emancipation -- Family -- FAncy girls -- Female slave network -- Folk medicine and healing -- Folklore and folktales -- Food preparation and cooking -- Free women -- Elizabeth Freeman -- French America -- Gardening -- Margaret Garner -- Gender conventions -- Girlhood -- Gullah culture -- Hair and headdresses -- Health, disabilities, and soundness -- Sally Hemings -- Hiring out -- Historiography -- Infanticide -- Islam -- Harriet Jacobs -- Jezebel stereotype -- Elizabeth Keckley -- Elizabeth Key -- Agricultural labor -- Nonagricultural labor -- Skilled labor -- Lucy Craft Laney -- Laws -- Life cycle -- Literacy -- Mammy stereotype -- Manumission -- Maroon communities -- Marriage and cohabitation -- Marriage, abroad -- Medical experimentation and surgery -- Middle passage. and Midwives -- Miscegenation -- Mobility -- Mortality and life expectancy -- Motherhood -- Naming -- Narratives -- The north -- Overseers -- Owners -- Plantation mistresses -- Pregnancy -- Prices -- Lucy Terry Prince -- Punishment -- Quilting -- Religion -- Representations -- Resistance -- Runaways -- Harriet Robinson Scott -- Seamstress work -- Sexuality -- Life in slave quarters -- Free black women slaveholders -- The south -- Taboos and superstitions -- Susie King Taylor -- Sally Thomas -- Tituba -- Truancy -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Underground Railroad -- Urban slavery -- Racial violence -- Sexual violence -- Voodoo -- Murder of "Wench Betty" -- The west -- Wet nursing -- Phillis Wheatley.
- Summary:
- This reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience is explored, and women are depicted as central, rather than marginal, figures in history.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780313349096 (electronic book)
0313349096 (electronic book) - Note:
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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