A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

by Leslie A. Schwalm

Series:Women in American History

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Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of low-country South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery, and their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of war while redefining life and labor in the postbellum period.

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Leslie A. Schwalm is associate professor of history, women's studies, and African American studies at the University of Iowa. She is author of A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina.

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Canonical title: A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
Original publication date: 1997
Important places: South Carolina, USA

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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

by Leslie A. Schwalm

Series:Women in American History

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