Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America, 2013
By the fall of 1857 Ben and Sarah, along with their two children, Lilly (Sarah Virginia) and Henr... more By the fall of 1857 Ben and Sarah, along with their two children, Lilly (Sarah Virginia) and Henry, and a number of slaves had migrated further south to Burnt Fort, Charlton County, Georgia. Located on the Satilla River near the Okefenokee Swamp, the site had become the focus of a considerable sawmill operation, which was the major justification for the move. Sarah’s response to the relocation presented her as the ever-dutiful wife and of course it meant removing herself from the tensions that had plagued the Clifton Grove household since her arrival in October 1853. Yet the image of the harmonious Southern family, white and black, that is presented in the missive above from Sarah in December 1858 masked the realities of the experience of relocation for both the Williams family and the enslaved at Clifton Grove.
Page 1. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Rebecca J. Fraser Page 2. Courtsh... more Page 1. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Rebecca J. Fraser Page 2. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Rebecm J. Fmser Page 3. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Page 4. ...
Review of: Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, Samantha Pi... more Review of: Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, Samantha Pinto (2020) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-832-3, h/bk, $99.95, p/bk, $26.95
Derrick Spires’ The Practice of Citizenship is a beautifully written and brilliantly evocative wo... more Derrick Spires’ The Practice of Citizenship is a beautifully written and brilliantly evocative work that centres print culture in the early United States as a site for the theorization and practice...
This paper examines the work and lives of black female activist intellectuals in the years before... more This paper examines the work and lives of black female activist intellectuals in the years before the formation of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) in 1896. Looking deeper at arguments originally made by Maria Stewart concerning the denial of black women's ambitions and limiting potential in their working lives, the analysis employs the work of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, in particular his notion of the intellectual, to help reflect on the centrality of these black women in the development of an early counterhegemonic movement.
This book analyzes the feminist and legal thought of women’s rights founder Elizabeth Cady Stanto... more This book analyzes the feminist and legal thought of women’s rights founder Elizabeth Cady Stanton on gender equality in the family. It discusses Stanton’s theories on marriage, divorce, marital property, domestic violence, reproductive control, and parenting. Revealing Stanton's comprehensive demand for systemic legal reform, it challenges conventional depictions of the narrowness of early feminism, the development of family law, and women's assumed acquiescence in domestic subordination. Stanton demanded change to the institutions of government, church, family, and work, which constituted “a fourfold bondage” of women. The family was one of these keys to full reform because Stanton understood the way in which the private domestic sphere was integrated with the public sphere of work and governance, and its related freedoms and opportunities. The book traces the way in which virtually all of Stanton’s proposals became law—from no-fault divorce to the elimination of dower to ...
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America, 2013
By the fall of 1857 Ben and Sarah, along with their two children, Lilly (Sarah Virginia) and Henr... more By the fall of 1857 Ben and Sarah, along with their two children, Lilly (Sarah Virginia) and Henry, and a number of slaves had migrated further south to Burnt Fort, Charlton County, Georgia. Located on the Satilla River near the Okefenokee Swamp, the site had become the focus of a considerable sawmill operation, which was the major justification for the move. Sarah’s response to the relocation presented her as the ever-dutiful wife and of course it meant removing herself from the tensions that had plagued the Clifton Grove household since her arrival in October 1853. Yet the image of the harmonious Southern family, white and black, that is presented in the missive above from Sarah in December 1858 masked the realities of the experience of relocation for both the Williams family and the enslaved at Clifton Grove.
Page 1. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Rebecca J. Fraser Page 2. Courtsh... more Page 1. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Rebecca J. Fraser Page 2. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Rebecm J. Fmser Page 3. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Page 4. ...
Review of: Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, Samantha Pi... more Review of: Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, Samantha Pinto (2020) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-832-3, h/bk, $99.95, p/bk, $26.95
Derrick Spires’ The Practice of Citizenship is a beautifully written and brilliantly evocative wo... more Derrick Spires’ The Practice of Citizenship is a beautifully written and brilliantly evocative work that centres print culture in the early United States as a site for the theorization and practice...
This paper examines the work and lives of black female activist intellectuals in the years before... more This paper examines the work and lives of black female activist intellectuals in the years before the formation of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) in 1896. Looking deeper at arguments originally made by Maria Stewart concerning the denial of black women's ambitions and limiting potential in their working lives, the analysis employs the work of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, in particular his notion of the intellectual, to help reflect on the centrality of these black women in the development of an early counterhegemonic movement.
This book analyzes the feminist and legal thought of women’s rights founder Elizabeth Cady Stanto... more This book analyzes the feminist and legal thought of women’s rights founder Elizabeth Cady Stanton on gender equality in the family. It discusses Stanton’s theories on marriage, divorce, marital property, domestic violence, reproductive control, and parenting. Revealing Stanton's comprehensive demand for systemic legal reform, it challenges conventional depictions of the narrowness of early feminism, the development of family law, and women's assumed acquiescence in domestic subordination. Stanton demanded change to the institutions of government, church, family, and work, which constituted “a fourfold bondage” of women. The family was one of these keys to full reform because Stanton understood the way in which the private domestic sphere was integrated with the public sphere of work and governance, and its related freedoms and opportunities. The book traces the way in which virtually all of Stanton’s proposals became law—from no-fault divorce to the elimination of dower to ...
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