Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
1 total work
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
by R. Harrison
Published 29 September 2009
Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.