Love of freedom : Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England / Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck.
This title looks at how African women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.
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Oxford ; New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Hagar Blackmore's journey from Angola to New England
- The uniqueness of New England
- Property and patriarchy
- Spiritual thirsting
- Marriage and the family
- Seeking possession of her liberty
- Spirit of freedom
- Citizenship
- Epilogue.