{"product_id":"a-hard-fight-for-we-9780252066306","title":"A Hard Fight for We","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study that deals with the courage and vigor with which African-American women fought for their freedom during and after the Civil War. Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, it offers an account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Willie Lee Rose Publication Prize,  the Southern Association of Women Historians, 1998.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A pleasure to read! Brimming with insight, prickly about assumptions too easily arrived at in earlier literature, briskly and pointedly written. Schwalm's book is a valuable intervention in the critical debate over the transition from slavery to freedom in the American South.\"--Stephanie McCurry, author of \u003ci\u003eMasters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This compelling, well-documented work offers us an intriguing look at a particular group of black women and their struggles to work for themselves and their communities on their own terms. Clearly, it makes a significant contribution to Civil War and Reconstruction-era historiography.\"--Jacqueline Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e PART 1: SLAVERY\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Women Always Did This Work\": Slave Women and Plantation Labor   19\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Ties to Bind Them All Together\": The Social and Reproductive Labor of Slave Women   47\u003cbr\u003e PART 2: SLAVERY'S WARTIME CRISIS\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"A Hard Fight for We\": Slave Women and the Civil War   75\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Without Mercy\": The End of War and the Final Destruction of Lowcountry Slavery   116\u003cbr\u003e PART 3: DEFINING AND DEFENDING FREEDOM\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"The Simple Act of Emancipation\": The First Year of Freedom   147\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"In Their Own Way\": Women and Work in the Postbellum South   187\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"And So to Establish Family Relations\": Race, Gender, and Family In the Postbellum Crisis of Free Labor   234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   269\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography   363\u003cbr\u003e Index   383\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations follow pages 46 and 144","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742209999191,"sku":"9780252066306","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252066306.jpg?v=1758383627","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-hard-fight-for-we-9780252066306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}