Title Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South / Stephanie M.H. Camp.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	306.362 C186C	Check Shelf

Description	xi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series	Gender and American culture
	Gender & American culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-202) and index.
Contents	A geography of containment: the bondage of space and time. -- I could not stay there: women, men, and truancy. -- The intoxication of pleasurable amusement: secret parties and the politics of the body. -- Amalgamation prints stuck up in her cabin: print culture, the home, and the roots of resistance. -- To get closer to freedom: gender, movement, and freedom during the Civil War.
Awards	Lillian Smith Book Award, 2005
Subject	Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Human geography -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Freedom of movement -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Passive resistance -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
ISBN	0807828726 alkaline paper
	9780807828724 alkaline paper
	0807855340 paperback alkaline paper
	9780807855348 paperback alkaline paper

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