Author : Emily West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442208732
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Book Synopsis Enslaved Women in America by : Emily West
Download or read book Enslaved Women in America written by Emily West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West offers an overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by using a broad chronological perspective, considering themes and issues in their lives from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War. She compares the lives of enslaved women—sometimes exceptional and sometimes ordinary—across time and space with the lives of enslaved men, and with the white men and women who held them in bondage. West draws upon a wide range of evidence in evaluating enslaved women's lives and considers the major methodological issues they pose in order to build a composite, or overall, picture of enslaved womanhood through "snapshots'' of different women at various stages of their life-cycles.