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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South

Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South

Gould, Virginia Meacham

Paperback

Series: Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and

Black American StudiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Women's Studies

ISBN10: 0820320838
ISBN13: 9780820320830
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 1 1998
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

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.

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