African American Women During The Civil War
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Author |
: Ella Forbes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815331155 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815331150 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis African American Women During the Civil War by : Ella Forbes
This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and experience. Free and enslaved African American women took part in this process in a variety of ways, including black female charity and benevolence. These women were spies, soldiers, scouts, nurses, cooks, seamstresses, laundresses, recruiters, relief workers, organizers, teachers, activists and survivors. They carried the honor of the race on their shoulders, insisting on their right to be treated as "ladies" and knowing that their conduct was a direct reflection on the African American community as a whole. For too long, black women have been rendered invisible in traditional Civil War history and marginal in African American chronicles. This book addresses this lack by reclaiming and resurrecting the role of African American females, individually and collectively, during the Civil War. It brings their contributions, in the words of a Civil War participant, Susie King Taylor, "in history before the people."
Author |
: Judith Giesberg |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2016-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271064314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271064315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Emilie Davis’s Civil War by : Judith Giesberg
Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community.
Author |
: Karen Cook Bell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2021-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108831543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108831540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Running from Bondage by : Karen Cook Bell
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author |
: Susie King Taylor |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 1902 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044036968782 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops by : Susie King Taylor
Author |
: Bettye Collier-Thomas |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2001-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814716021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814716024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sisters in the Struggle by : Bettye Collier-Thomas
Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.
Author |
: Tera W. Hunter |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1998-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674893085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674893085 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis To ÕJoy My Freedom by : Tera W. Hunter
As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south--in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception--and at the heart--of the new south.
Author |
: Erica Armstrong Dunbar |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300145069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300145063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Fragile Freedom by : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War.
Author |
: Noralee Frankel |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015047591477 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freedom's Women by : Noralee Frankel
"Frankel's scholarship in this carefully researched and clearly written study is impressive.... The study is thoroughly documented with 70 pages of footnotes and a 14-page bibliography, refleccting Frankel's grasp of the secondary literature as well as extensive work in primary documents." -- Choice Freedom's Women examines African American women's experiences during the Civil War and early Reconstruction years in Mississippi. Exploring issues of family and work, the author shows how African American women's attempts to achieve more control over their lives shaped their attitudes toward work, marriage, family, and community.
Author |
: Jane E. Schultz |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2005-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807864159 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807864153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women at the Front by : Jane E. Schultz
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Author |
: Juanita Patience Moss |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0788455400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780788455407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forgotten Black Soldiers Who Served in White Regiments During the Civil War by : Juanita Patience Moss
In 1998, the author learned about a new monument in Washington, D.C., created to honor the black soldiers and sailors who had served in the Civil War. What she was about to learn; however, was that her great grandfather's name would not be among those remembered there. Why not? Because he had not served in one of the segregated units whose members' names are engraved on the memorial wall. Instead, Crowder Pacien/Patience had served in a white regiment. An identifiably "Col'd" man, he had been a private in the 103rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After having been told that there had been no black soldiers serving in white regiments, the author made a hypothesis that if there had been one such black soldier in a white regiment, as she knew, then there might have been others. This series traces the author's journey to such proof. The hundreds of names listed here should be proof enough for the "nay-sayers" to conclude that black men indeed did serve in white regiments. Chapters in Volume II include: Difficulties with Finding Facts, C-Span Book TV Presentation, Mixed Race Regiments, Honoring Civil War Ancestors, Recruitment of Black Soldiers, General Orders No. 323 and the Undercooks, Three Undercooks Garrisoned at Plymouth, N.C., A Trip to the Carlisle Barracks, Finding the Gravesites of Black Soldiers, A Gravesite Lost in North Carolina, One Descendant's Determination, and Conclusion. Chapters are followed by lists: Additional Black Soldiers Alphabetized, Additional Black Soldiers by States, and Final Resting Places. Numerous photographs and illustrations, End Notes, Sources, and an index to full-names, subjects and places add to the value of this work. Historians and Civil War "buffs" alike will find new information revealed in this series, even though so many years have passed since the last shot of the war was fired.