Gendered resistance : women, slavery, and the legacy of Margaret Garner / edited by Mary E. Frederickson and Delores M. Walters ; foreword by Darlene Clark Hine.

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"Inspired by the story of Margaret Garner, who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of resistance, and issues of slavery and freedom from the eighteenth through the twenty-first c...

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Uniform Title:New Black studies series.
Other Authors: Frederickson, Mary E. (Editor)
Walters, Delores M. (Editor)
Hine, Darlene Clark (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
Enslaved women > United States > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History.
Garner, Margaret, > 1834-1858 > Influence.
Slavery in literature.
Enslaved women > Social conditions.
Enslaved women > Violence against.
Sex crimes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
Physical Description:xvii, 234 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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