Book contents
- Running from Bondage
- Running from Bondage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “A Negro Wench Named Lucia”
- Chapter 2 “A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret”
- Chapter 3 “A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny”
- Chapter 4 “A Negro Woman Called Bett”
- Chapter 5 Confronting the Power Structures
- Conclusion
- Appendix Fugitive Women Émigrés to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Enslaved Women’s Fugitivity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
- Running from Bondage
- Running from Bondage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “A Negro Wench Named Lucia”
- Chapter 2 “A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret”
- Chapter 3 “A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny”
- Chapter 4 “A Negro Woman Called Bett”
- Chapter 5 Confronting the Power Structures
- Conclusion
- Appendix Fugitive Women Émigrés to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Although enslaved Black women were marginalized and faced many obstacles to freedom during the Revolutionary era, they asserted their claims to freedom through fugitivity as they invoked the same philosophical arguments of liberty that White revolutionaries made in their own fierce struggle against oppression. At stake in this discussion of fugitive women is demonstrating that Black women’s resistance in the form of truancy and escape were central components of abolitionism during the Revolutionary Era. Thousands of women of diverse circumstances escaped bondage despite their status as mothers and wives. In fact, motherhood, freedom, love and family propelled Black women to escape bondage during the Revolutionary Era; a time when the chaos of war made women’s flight possible due to the breakdown of oversight and colonial authority.
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- Running from BondageEnslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America, pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021