新刊『束縛からの逃走:奴隷化された女性とアメリカ革命期における自由のための画期的闘争』

Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America, Karen Cook Bell, Cambridge University Press, July 1, 2021

This 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. Author 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 escape. Author demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for emancipation from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes that chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.(引用元