Wives, Slaves, and Servant Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wives, Slaves, and Servant Girls write by Don N. Hagist. This book was released on 2016. Wives, Slaves, and Servant Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Surprising Source of Information About a Largely Forgotten Segment of the Colonial Population In an age when individuals could be owned by others, people were lost and found just like other property. Indentured servants and slaves absconded from the custody of their masters, and their value prompted the masters to seek their return. Wives ran from abusive husbands or into the arms of another. Newspapers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries carried large numbers of advertisements offering rewards for the return of runaways or announcing the detention of fugitives. Each ad provided a description of the individual and often included some circumstances of their elopement. The overall effectiveness of these advertisements cannot be measured, but the sheer number of ads suggests they were perceived as useful tools by those who placed them. What could not have been known at the time was the substantial contribution to history that these ads make. The descriptive advertisements provide textual snapshots of thousands of individuals who would otherwise be lost to history, people whose names might not otherwise be recorded. In Wives, Slaves, and Servant Girls: Advertisements for Female Runaways in American Newspapers, 1770-1783, historian Don N. Hagist focuses on the American Revolutionary period to provide a striking portrait of a substantial but largely forgotten segment of the population. Comprised of four hundred advertisements presented chronologically, the volume provides invaluable descriptions of women's clothes, footwear, jewelry, physical appearances, education, nationalities, occupations, and other details.
Running from Bondage
Running from Bondage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Running from Bondage write by Karen Cook Bell. This book was released on 2021-07. Running from Bondage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
They Were Her Property
They Were Her Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook They Were Her Property write by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. This book was released on 2019-02-19. They Were Her Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
The Plantation Mistress
The Plantation Mistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Plantation Mistress write by Catherine Clinton. This book was released on 1984-02-12. The Plantation Mistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl write by Harriet Jacobs. This book was released on 2014-02-05. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children. It addresses the struggles and sexual abuse that young women slaves faced on the plantations, and how these struggles were harsher than what men suffered as slaves. The book is considered sentimental and written to provoke an emotional response and sympathy from the reader toward slavery in general and slave women in particular for their struggles with rape, the pressure to have sex at an early age, the selling of their children, and the treatment of female slaves by their mistresses.
