Karen Cook Bell

Gebundenes Buch

Running from Bondage

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

Beschreibung

Running from Bondage examines the ways in which enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War. Exploring who these women were and what motivated them to escape, Karen Cook Bell places their compelling stories within the broader historical narratives of slave resistance and the American Revolution.

Autor

Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. She specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women's history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831543
• ISBN-10: 1108831540
• Artikelnr.: 60940933