African-American Women in Reconstruction in the Shenandoah Valley by Ann Denkler

“…What is crucial to this study is how Black women in the Valley, both during and after enslavement, experienced slavery and freedom similarly and differently from other regions in the South. Thus, the dominant paradigms and mythologies of large plantations overseen by single white patriarchs do not adequately describe the entirety of slave history in America and denies African American women the agency they deserve as historical actors. …”
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