Literature Reviews


Drew Gilpin Faust. “‘Without Pilot or Compass': Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South.” In Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 250–260.

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Herbert G. Gutman “Marital and Sexual Norms Among Slave Women.” In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990, 545–557.

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Darlene Clark Hine. “Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex.” In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990, 657–666. First published in The Western Journal of Black Studies 3 (1979) 123–127.

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Cynthia Lynn Lyerly. “Religion, Gender, and Identity: Black Methodist Women in a Slave Society, 1770–1810.” In Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past. Ed. Patricia Morton. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998, 202–226.

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Nell Irvin Painter. Soul Murder and Slavery. Charles Edmondson Historical Lecture Series, No. 15. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1995.

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Dorothy Roberts. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Vintage, 1997.

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