Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780895873231)

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.

Author: Patrick Minges
ISBN-10: 0895873230
ISBN-13: 9780895873231
Publisher: Blair
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 76
Multicultural Review 06/01/2007 pg. 62