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"De massa call me and tell me, 'Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants.' I thinks 'bout Massa buyin' me off de block and savin' me from bein' separated from my folks, and 'bout bein' whipped at de stake. Dere it am. What am I to do?" So asks Rose Williams of Bell County, Texas, whose long-ago forced cohabitation remains as bitter at age 90 as when she was 'just a ingnoramus chile' of 16. In all her years after freedom, she never had any desire to marry. Firsthand accounts of female slaves are few. The best-known narratives of slavery are those of Frederick Douglass and other men. Even the photos most people have seen are of male slaves chained and beaten. What we know of the lives of female slaves comes mainly from the fiction of authors like Toni Morrison and movies like Gone With the Wind. Far More Terrible for Women seeks to broaden the discussion by presenting 27 narratives of female ex-slaves. Editor Patrick Minges combed the WPA interviews of the 1930s for those of women, selecting a range of stories that give a taste of the unique challenges, complexities, and cruelties that were the lot of females under the 'peculiar institution.' |
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Interviews -- Southern States.
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Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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African American women -- Southern States -- Interviews.
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Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Interviews.
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
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9780895875020 (electronic book) |
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0895875020 (electronic book) |
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MWT12033994 |
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