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Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings)

Virginia Meacham Gould

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Description:Chained to the Rock of Adversity offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story.The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of prominent Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, and her daughter Anna, while Ann's daughter Catharine wrote the diary. A freed slave herself, Ann Johnson became the head of her family and a slaveholder before the Civil War. Her days were filled with the often tedious and sometimes overwhelming duties assigned to slaveholding women, but her race separated her from most other women of this class. The writings depict a tight-knit network of family and friends and show a family well aware of its precarious position in society, feared by most whites and resented by other blacks.Editor Virginia Meacham Gould provides an extensive introduction, a cast of characters, identifying notes, and a brief afterword tracing the Johnson family to the present day.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings). To get started finding Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Chained to the Rock of Adversity offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story.The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of prominent Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, and her daughter Anna, while Ann's daughter Catharine wrote the diary. A freed slave herself, Ann Johnson became the head of her family and a slaveholder before the Civil War. Her days were filled with the often tedious and sometimes overwhelming duties assigned to slaveholding women, but her race separated her from most other women of this class. The writings depict a tight-knit network of family and friends and show a family well aware of its precarious position in society, feared by most whites and resented by other blacks.Editor Virginia Meacham Gould provides an extensive introduction, a cast of characters, identifying notes, and a brief afterword tracing the Johnson family to the present day.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings). To get started finding Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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