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Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, & Female in the Old South
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| #5804993 in Books | 1998-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.66 x6.00l,.93 | File type: PDF | 97 pages||4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| BLACK WOMEN'S VOICES|By A Customer|THIS TERRIFIC BOOK RECAPTURES BLACK WOMEN'S EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE UNIQUE LIVES THEY LED. WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT FREE BLACK WOMEN IN THE SOUTH AND THESE LETTERS AND DIARIES BRING TO LIFE A NEGLECTED CHAPTER OF OUR HISTORY AND THEIR EXPERIENCE.....PLUS THE DIARY OF THIS YOUNG BLACK WOMAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR IS A COMPELLING HISTORICAL||
"This is a spectacular achievement. Gould gives us the only example we have of a free black woman's testimony. It is simply a treasure."--Catherine Clinton, author of Tara Revisited
Chained to the Rock of Adversity offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story.
The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of prominent Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, and her daughter Anna, while Ann's daughter Catharine wrote the diary. A freed slave herself, Ann Johnson became the he...
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