Helps understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. This book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.
A study that deals with the courage and vigor with which African-American women fought for their freedom during and after the Civil War. Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, it offers an account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery.
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