[Sci-tech-public] Lecture on U.S. slave women's movements before and after the Civil War

[Elizabeth Wood]

Hello, dear colleagues,
         Thought you would want to know about this talk in U.S. women's 
history on March 16, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
                 - Elizabeth

>Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:39:15 -0500
>To: (Recipient list suppressed)
>From: Margo Collett <mcollett at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: [History] Sahin Lecture March 16, 2005
>
>  Sahin Lecture Series
>
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>Stephanie Camp
>
>Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
>
>"Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women's
>Movement in Peace and War"
>
>
>Drawing on her new book, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women's Everyday 
>Resistance in the Plantation South, published by the University of North 
>Carolina Press as part of its Gender and American Culture series, 
>Stephanie Camp will discuss the centrality of space to the perpetual 
>conflicts that existed between enslaved people and slaveholders in the 
>American South.  While slaveholders attempted to create a "geography of 
>containment" to confine and control the enslaved, bondpeople responded 
>with a "rival geography," alternative ways of knowing and using southern 
>space.  As is often the case, spatial issues had a gendered dimension, 
>with enslaved women experiencing both confinement and mobility differently 
>from enslaved men. The experiences of both men and women were profoundly 
>altered by the changes of the Civil War, and their wartime actions came to 
>have unexpected, and revolutionary, consequences.
>
>
>
>Wednesday, March 16, 2005
>
>Building E51 Room 275
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>(Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge, MA)
>
>4:30  to 6:00 pm
>
>For more information, you may contact Margo Collett at 
><mailto:mcollett at mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu.This lecture series is sponsored 
>by MIT's History Faculty
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