Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America

The historical records and stories of enslaved African women have both creative and life-affirming resistance strategies for how women of the past have dealt with and healed from violence. This book draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe the depths of multi-dimensional oppression and violence in the lives of enslaved African women. Harrison investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival in order to recover those African-derived aesthetic forms, cultural traditions, and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression. The nine strategies of resistance offered as modes of resistance employed by enslaved women are viable modes for modern-day women.

Author: R. Harrison
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230618466

About the Author
Renee K. Harrison is Assistant Professor of African American and U.S. Religious History at Howard University School of Divinity, USA.