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A hard fight for we

by Leslie A. Schwalm · 1997

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Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of low-country South Carolina, Leslie Schwalm offers a thoroughly researched account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery, and their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of war while redefining life and labor in the postbellum period.

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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisslaveryslaveryMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thiscivil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisSouth CarolinaSouth CarolinaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 394 pages

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