A hard fight for we : women's transition from slavery to freedom in South Carolina /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
Series:	Women in American history.
Subjects:	Women slaves > South Carolina > History > 19th century. Plantation life > South Carolina > History > 19th century. Slaves > Emancipation > South Carolina. African American women > South Carolina > History > 19th century. South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > South Carolina.

Table of Contents:

"Women always did this work" : slave women and plantation labor
"Ties to bind them all together" : the social and reproductive labor of slave women
"A hard fight for we" : slave women and the Civil War
"Without mercy" : the end of war and the final destruction of lowcountry slavery
"The simple act of emancipation : the first year of freedom
"In their own way"
women and work in the postbellum South
"And so to establish family relations" : race, gender, and family in the postbellum crisis of free labor.