Ar'n't I a Woman? : Female Slaves in the Plantation South
ISBN: 9780393314816 | 0393314812
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 2/17/1999
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Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black wo... MORE
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
| Revisiting Ar'n't I a Woman | 1 | (12) | |||
| Introduction | 13 | (14) | |||
| 27 | (35) |
Deborah Gray White is professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University.
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