Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of Enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War.
Karen Cook Bell \'s enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these Women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to esca.
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of Enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War