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

Name: Closer to Freedom Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
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ISBN: 9780807855348

ISBN-10: 0807855340

ISBN-13: 9780807855348

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stephanie M. H. Camp

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English




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The intoxication of pleasurable amusement : secret parties and the politics of the body



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