Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England
by
Catherine Adams, Elizabeth H. Pleck
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation...