Far More Terrible for Women

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Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery

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Far More Terrible for Women presents 27 firsthand narratives of female ex-slaves, drawn from the WPA interviews of the 1930s. These accounts reveal the unique challenges, cruelties, and complexities faced by women under slavery. Through voices like Rose Williams of Bell County, Texas, the book illuminates the bitter realities of forced cohabitation, separation from family, and the absence of agency experienced by enslaved women, broadening the conversation beyond the more commonly known male narratives.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in American history, slavery studies, women's history, and first-person narratives. It is suitable for students, educators, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the female perspective on slavery beyond mainstream fiction and male-dominated accounts.

Drawing from interviews with former slaves in the 1930s, these are firsthand accounts from the perspective of enslaved women.

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De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants." I thinks 'bout Massa buyin' me off de block and savin' me from bein' separated from my folks, and 'bout bein' whipped at de stake. Dere it am. What am I to do?

So asks Rose Williams of Bell County, Texas, whose long-ago forced cohabitation remains as bitter at age 90 as when she was "just a ingnoramus chile" of 16. In all her years after freedom, she never had any desire to marry.

Firsthand accounts of female slaves are few. The best-known narratives of slavery are those of Frederick Douglass and other men. Even the photos most people have seen are of male slaves chained and beaten. What we know of the lives of female slaves comes mainly from the fiction of authors like Toni Morrison and movies like Gone With the Wind.

Far More Terrible for Women seeks to broaden the discussion by presenting 27 narratives of female ex-slaves. Editor Patrick Minges combed the WPA interviews of the 1930s for those of women, selecting a range of stories that give a taste of the unique challenges, complexities, and cruelties that were the lot of females under the "peculiar institution."

Patrick Minges worked for 17 years for Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. He teaches in Stokes County Schools and at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem. He is also the author of Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867 and Black Indian Slave Narratives.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780895873231

Publisher: John F Blair Publisher

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 February 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: John F Blair Publisher

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Patrick Minges

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 219

Collections

Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Patrick Minges worked for 17 years for Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. He teaches in Stokes County Schools and at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem. He is also the author of Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867 and Black Indian Slave Narratives.