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Running from bondage, enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America, Karen Cook Bell

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Running from bondage, enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America, Karen Cook Bell
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eng
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Main title
Running from bondage
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Karen Cook Bell
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enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America
Summary
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty
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adult
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Enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America
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