Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
by Renee K. Harrison
Black Religion, Womanist Thought, Social Justice
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Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.Tags
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Renee K. Harrison is an Assistant Professor of African American Religious Practices and Culture. She received her Ph.D. at Emory University in the Department of Religion and she recently completed a Lilly grant post-doctoral fellowship in Practical Theology and Religious Practices at Emory.
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- Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
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- Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality
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- 306.362082097 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Culture and institutions Economic institutions Systems of labor Slavery Biography And History
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- E443 .H368 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Slavery in the United States. Antislavery
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