02467cmm a2200385 4500 214817972 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 051026s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780807875766 electronic bk. 0807875767 electronic bk. (OCoLC)62153890 N$T eng N$T OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCQ TUU OCLCQ MERUC TxAuBib Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to freedom [electronic resource] : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South / Stephanie M.H. Camp. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 1 online resource (xi, 206 p.) : ill. Gender and American culture Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-202) and index. A geography of containment: the bondage of space and time. -- I could not stay there: women, men, and truancy. -- The intoxication of pleasurable amusement: secret parties and the politics of the body. -- Amalgamation prints stuck up in her cabin: print culture, the home, and the roots of resistance. -- To get closer to freedom: gender, movement, and freedom during the Civil War. 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, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. Women slaves Southern States Social conditions 19th century. Slaves Southern States Social conditions 19th century. Passive resistance Southern States History 19th century. Sex role United States History. Plantation life Southern States History 19th century. Freedom of movement Southern States History 19th century. Landscape Social aspects Southern States History 19th century. Human geography Southern States History 19th century. Slavery Southern States History 19th century. Social sciences Slavery. Southern States Race relations. Electronic books. Gender and American culture. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=137897 EBSCOhost