Autore: Darlene Hine

Essays exploring Black women’s experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were expl …

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change …

Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black wom …

Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to thi …