Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West an

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space,

West offers an overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by using a broad chronological perspective, considering themes and issues in their lives from

Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The

A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.