Love of Freedom : Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (488 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780199741786
- E443 .L684 2009
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: Hagar Blackmore's Journey from Angola to New England; 1. The Uniqueness of New England; 2. Property and Patriarchy; 3. Spiritual Thirsting; 4. Marriage and The Family; 5. Seeking Possession of Her Liberty; 6. Spirit of Freedom; 7. Citizenship; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions. Hidden behind the banner of achieving freedom was the assumption that freedom meant affirming black manhood The struggle for freedom in New England was different for men than for women. Black men i.
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