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Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the es
Women of Resistance
Language: en
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Categories: Poetry
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Closer to Freedom
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-12 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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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,
Women Writing Resistance
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Pages: 260
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Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Dant
Mothers of Massive Resistance
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Authors: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
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Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s this book explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation. For decades whit