Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

by Karen Cook Bell
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

by Karen Cook Bell

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Overview

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108831543
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/01/2021
Pages: 254
Sales rank: 1,147,301
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. She specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women's history.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Enslaved women's fugitivity; 1. 'A negro wench named Lucia': Enslaved women during the eighteenth century; 2. 'A mulatto woman named Margaret': Pre-Revolutionary fugitive women; 3. 'A well-dressed woman named Jenny': Revolutionary Black women, 1776–1781; 4. 'A negro woman called Bett': Overcoming obstacles to freedom in Post-Revolutionary America; 5. Confronting the power structures: Marronage and Black women's fugitivity; Conclusion.
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