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Author:

Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

Title:

A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina / Leslie A. Schwalm.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xiii, 394 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women slaves--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Plantation life--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Slaves--Emancipation--South Carolina.
Afro-American women--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Reconstruction--South Carolina.
South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-382) and index.

Contents:

"Women always did this work" : slave women and plantation labor -- "Ties to bind them all together" : the social and reproductive labor of slave women -- "A hard fight for we" : slave women and the Civil War -- "Without mercy" : the end of war and the final destruction of lowcountry slavery -- "The simple act of emancipation : the first year of freedom -- "In their own way" -- women and work in the postbellum South -- "And so to establish family relations" : race, gender, and family in the postbellum crisis of free labor.

Series:

Women in American history

ISBN:

9780252066306 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0252066308 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780252022593 (acid-free paper)
0252022599 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)35808344

LCCN:

96045866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)