Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South

Resource Information

The work Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South

Title remainder

enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South

Statement of responsibility

Stephanie M.H. Camp

Creator

• Camp, Stephanie M. H
• Camp, Stephanie M. H

Author

• Camp, Stephanie M. H
• Camp, Stephanie M. H

Subject

• Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Southern States -- Race relations
• Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Freedom of movement -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Human geography -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Passive resistance -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women

Member of

• Gender & American culture
• Gender & American culture.
• Online Access with Subscription: Heinonline (Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law)
• Online Access with Subscription: Heinonline (Women and the Law (Peggy))

Awards note

Lillian Smith Book Award, 2005

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.3/62/0820973

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E443

LC item number

.C36 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Gender and American culture