Book contents
- Running from Bondage
- Running from Bondage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “A Negro Wench Named Lucia”
- Chapter 2 “A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret”
- Chapter 3 “A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny”
- Chapter 4 “A Negro Woman Called Bett”
- Chapter 5 Confronting the Power Structures
- Conclusion
- Appendix Fugitive Women Émigrés to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
- Running from Bondage
- Running from Bondage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “A Negro Wench Named Lucia”
- Chapter 2 “A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret”
- Chapter 3 “A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny”
- Chapter 4 “A Negro Woman Called Bett”
- Chapter 5 Confronting the Power Structures
- Conclusion
- Appendix Fugitive Women Émigrés to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The era of the American Revolution was as critical for African American women as it was for Black men and for White Americans who gained their independence from Great Britain. Black women’s various efforts to escape bondage have been viewed as ancillary in the letters and diaries, biographical accounts, and legal proceedings historians often used to support arguments based on analysis of enslaved men or on factors that prevented women from fleeing slavery. Black women’s freedom was intertwined with the movement for American independence, and African American women influenced the military conflict and were powerfully influenced by its outcome.
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- Running from BondageEnslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America, pp. 160 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021