Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)

Author: Camp, Stephanie M. H.

Price: $27.99

Category:United States History
Publication Date:2004-09-13T00:00:01Z
Pages:224
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0807855340
ISBN:13:9780807855348
Focusing on female slaves' everyday forms of resistance--such as truancy, theft, and illegal parties--Camp argues that the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades, as slaves broke rules, spoke their minds, and ran away.

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