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Bezig met laden... Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (2006)door Patrick Minges
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was interesting, but hard to read at times because of the way that all of the slang words were written. I am from South Alabama, so I speak and understand southern & "country" slang very well. I still had to slow down to read parts of this book. These are the personal stories of women who were previously slaves. The stories are often sad, but sometimes happy. It is an interesting book for anyone interested in history or the history of slavery. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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."--Publisher's website. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is primarily using slave narratives taken by the fwp. ( )