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Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights (Duke UP, 2020). Saxton, Martha. Being good: Women's moral values in early America (Macmillan, 2004). Schwalm, Leslie. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (U of Illinois Press, 1997). Schwartz, Marie Jenkins.
Margaret Garner as depicted in Harper's Weekly c.1867. Infanticide was an act of rebellion because it allowed enslaved women to prevent the enslavement of their children. . Due to partus sequitur ventrum, the principle that a child inherits the status of its mother, any child born to an enslaved woman would be born enslaved, part of the enslaver's property
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
For most women, colonialism resulted in an erosion of traditions and rights that formerly granted women equality and esteem. [3] Some women in pre-colonial Africa held positions of power and were influential in many aspects of their societies. Other women were slaves in pre-colonial African societies. All this changed during the colonial period.
In the course of human history, slavery was a typical feature of civilization, [3] and was legal in most societies, but it is now outlawed in most countries of the world, except as a punishment for a crime. [4] [5] In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner.
Led by a Santa Rosa teacher, an educational task force planned a "Women’s History Week" celebration in 1978, which included a parade, essay contest, and dozens of presentations on women's ...
BERLIN, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declined Wednesday to say slavery was a cause of the Civil War, arguing instead that it came down to “the role of government.” ...
A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Snyder, Terri L. The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America ...