enslaved women

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

Discovery of Phillis Wheatley's earliest known elegy in a commonplace book gives us important insights into her early life and how her work circulated.

Enslaved women’s experiences with war must be extended to include the everyday warfare of slavery.

An enslaved woman’s experience with General Sherman’s army.

Examining enslaved mothers and antislavery literature on the eve of war.

Bett Freeman's story and the legal precedent her case established are now forever remembered in Sheffield, Massachusetts.

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

An 1860 census record offers a glimpse into the choices available to pregnant women who were enslaved.

Kristen Green’s "The Devil’s Half Acre" recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

“European and Indian men—as captors, brokers, and buyers—used captured and enslaved women to craft relationships of trade and reciprocity with one another.”

The relationship between enslaved women and the Revolutionary war.

Jennifer L. Morgan on the intersectionality of enslaved women and common misunderstandings about slavery.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

Following backlash to the construction of a statue for Mary Seacole, Knight describes the connection between nursing and slavery in the US South.

The economics of childbirth under slavery.

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.

African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.

Enslaved wet nurses were a valued purchase in the antebellum South.