Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

by Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck

Book Overview

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black 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.

Hidden behind the banner of achieving freedom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195389085
• ISBN13: 9780195389081
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"