The essence of liberty [electronic resource] : free black women during the slave era / Wilma King.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.Description: xvi, 290 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.48/896073 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.18 .K56 2006eb
Online resources: Summary: "King uses a wide range of sources to examine the experiences of free black women in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation, showing how they became free, educated themselves, found jobs, maintained self-esteem, and developed social consciousness--even participating in the abolitionist movement"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"King uses a wide range of sources to examine the experiences of free black women in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation, showing how they became free, educated themselves, found jobs, maintained self-esteem, and developed social consciousness--even participating in the abolitionist movement"--Provided by publisher.

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