7 Top history books like A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Leslie A. Schwalm

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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

By: Leslie A. Schwalm

3.83

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil W…

If you liked the history plot in A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Leslie A. Schwalm , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter

1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

By: Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more

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Cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

2. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Cover of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies) by Jessica Marie Johnson

3. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

4.27

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more

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Cover of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America) by Amy Murrell Taylor

4. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)

By: Amy Murrell Taylor

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more

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Cover of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan

5. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more

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Cover of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction by Laura F. Edwards

6. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction

By: Laura F. Edwards

3.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in pri… read more

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Cover of A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Leslie A. Schwalm

7. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

By: Leslie A. Schwalm

3.83

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil W… read more

Similar categories in Leslie A. Schwalm's A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) book and Leslie A. Schwalm's A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

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7 Best american history books like A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Leslie A. Schwalm

Transform Your Habits

To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Transform Your Habits

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

Jessica Marie Johnson

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)

Amy Murrell Taylor

4.43

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17 must-read history books like Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan

Transform Your Habits

Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Brett Rushforth

4.05

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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

4.28

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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

None , Marisa J. Fuentes

4.43

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