Ar n t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South Best Sellers Rank : #3

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Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 256 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. This new edition of Ar n t I a Woman reviews and updates The Scholarship on slave women and the slave family. Exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Finally. this groundeaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South - their heroic struggle to gain their rights. hold their families together . resist economic and sexual oppression. and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.