Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the AmericasPosted in Anthologies, Books, Census/Demographics, History, Media Archive, Slavery, United States, Women on 2011-02-13 21:21Z by Steven |
Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
University of Illinois Press
2004
344 pages
6 x 9.25 in.
Illustrations: 25 tables
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4
Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2
Edited by
David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History
Duke University
Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History
Northwestern University
Black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery
David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine’s Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, were forced to carve out their existences. Although their freedom, represented by the acquisition of property, respectability, and opportunity, always remained precarious, the collection supports the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.