Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)

by ReneeK.Harrison (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $112.18

  Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.