Author: Scott C. Williamson
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2506

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Author: Katy Simpson Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807152250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farmer and politician. Within a multicultural landscape, mothers drew advice and consolation from female networks, broader intellectual currents, and an understanding of their own multifaceted identities to devise their own standards for child rearing. In this way, by constructing, interpreting, and defending their roles as parents, women in the South maintained a certain degree of control over their own and their children's lives. Focusing on Virginia and the Carolinas from 1750 to 1835, Katy Simpson Smith's study examines these maternal practices to reveal the ways in which diverse groups of women struggled to create empowered identities in the early South. We Have Raised All of You contributes to a wide variety of historical conversations by affirming the necessity of multicultural -- not simply biracial -- studies of the American South. Its equally weighted analysis of white, black, and Native American women sets it distinctly apart from other work. Smith shows that while women from different backgrounds shared similar experiences within the trajectory of motherhood, no universal model holds up under scrutiny. Most importantly, this book suggests that parenthood provided women with some power within their often-circumscribed lives. Alternately restricted, oppressed, belittled, and enslaved, women sought to embrace an identity that would give them some sense of self-respect and self-worth. The rich and varied roles that mothers inherited, Smith shows, afforded women this empowering identity.

Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Author: William Green (slave.)
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Manning Marable
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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A passionate and frequently brilliant examination of political economy and racial oppression in the US, originally published in 1981 by Black Praxis Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Author: William Wells Brown
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786935X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834. In this comprehensive edition, John Ernest acts as a surefooted guide to this seminal work, beginning with a substantial introduction placing Brown's life and work in cultural and historical context. Brown addresses from a post-emancipation vantage point his early experiences and understanding of the world of slavery and describes his travels through many southern states. The text itself is presented in its original form, while Ernest's annotations highlight its layered complexity and document the many instances in which Brown borrows from his own earlier writings and the writings of others to form an underlying dialogue. This edition sheds new light on Brown's literary craft and provides readers with the maps they need to follow Brown on his quest for home in the chaotic social landscape of American southern culture in the final decades of the nineteenth century.

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Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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