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

Author: Camp, Stephanie M. H.Brand: The University of North Carolina PressEdition: 1st PAPERBACKFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 224Release Date: 13-09-2004Details: Product Description Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political